The Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI) is a private, non-profit institution, established as such in 1988. Originally from the Business School of Valparaíso, which was established in 1953 by the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation, depository of the businessman's legacy and public man Mr. Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano.

Its main mission is to deliver an education that, based on freedom and personal responsibility, allows its students to develop their full intellectual and human potential.

To achieve this, the UAI assumes the commitment to impart professional training with high academic standards, contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through high level research and transfer this knowledge for the benefit of society.