Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Información
Mission
The current priorities of the Javeriana University are:
- Strengthen its interdisciplinary nature
- Promote research
- Promote curricula-centered integral education
- Reinforce its presence throughout the country, especially contributing to solving Colombia’s ethical, political, economic,technological, scientific, cultural-identity, and environmentalproblems
General Characteristics
- The Javeriana University is a private University, founded in
- Bogotá in 1623 by the Society of Jesus
- It operated until 1767, when Jesuits were exiled from the domains of Charles III, King of Spain
- The Unviersity was reestablished in 1930
- The Javeriana University is one of the oldest Universities in Colombia, with its main campus in Bogotá and another campus in Cali
- It is one of the 28 universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL), and one of the 114 worldwide