Unique to Mexico, the University of the Americas Puebla has a housing system very similar to those in the United States, their antecedents being the Yale and the Harvard housing systems. The University has 4 residential colleges, named after some of the most important people in the history of the UDLAP. The name of the four colleges are: The Cain Murray, the Ray Lindley, the Ignacio Bernal and the José Gaos colleges.[4]