Universidad Mayor is an independent higher education institution, committed to forming cultured and enterprising professionals and the preservation and dissemination of higher knowledge, within the context of a global world, all of which is guided towards the benefit of the people and contribution to the progress of the nation.
In this frame, the objectives of the institution are:
To provide high quality education to its students at the undergraduate level and maintain excellence of the undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
To encourage through the educational experience an attitude of entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, international involvement and respect for cultural diversity.
To develop activities that contribute to the national community by considering the norms of scientific rigor, within the cultural, educational social and economic contour.
To maintain a quality assurance system at the organizational and operational levels.
Universidad Mayor considers professional education as its primary function, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines, including Administration, Architecture, Education, Art, Humanities, Health, Law, Social Sciences and Technology.
Extension, research, services and particularly international insertion are framed and emphasized as factors in the educational process and its linkage with the society it serves.
The Universidad Mayor is a community which holds a diversity of professional, academic and personal interests. This contributes to the achievement of the institutional purpose, and consequently students are admitted without social or geographic origin discrimination.
Universidad Mayor is known for its contributions to the progress of the nation, focusing on the scientific-technological educational area, important element in the current culture and in the development of the nations, staying open to humanities, social sciences and the arts, inserted in the international setting, keeping in mind the importance of globalization and cultural diversity.
The above will always be carried out by educating persons with a balanced development, well-rounded, entrepreneurs, and leadership capacity, through the completion of studies and research, publications, services, proposals and activities directed towards the intellectual, social, economic and cultural setting, all of which will be in compliance with the quality standards.
The educational work of Universidad Mayor will encompass the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, specialization and training of professionals. Its contribution to the area of development and dissemination of higher knowledge and the arts will focus on the situations, problems and needs of the productive and services sectors, related to the development of the nation, and to the educational and cultural requirements and needs, in general, of the community environment.
While accomplishing the above Universidad Mayor will integrate the resources and/or means accordingly to the level.
