The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is a Catholic institution of higher education, founded and run by the Society of Jesus, committed to the educational principles and orientations of the founding entity. It teaches, research and service with excellence, as a university integrated to a country of regions, with a global and interdisciplinary perspective, and proposes:

​The integral formation of people who stand out for their high human, ethical, academic, professional and social responsibility quality; the creation and development of knowledge and culture in a critical and innovative perspective, for the achievement of a just, sustainable, inclusive, democratic, supportive and respectful society of human dignity.