It was created in 1953 by the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation, a repository of the legacy of the businessman and public figure, Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano, and incorporated as a university in 1988. Provide teaching programs which, together with lead to academic degrees and professional titles of high stringency, allowing its students a solid intellectual preparation, develop a capacity for moral discernment and reasoning and understand that they have a strong commitment to society. Promote and conduct research, creation, preservation and transmission of knowledge and the cultivation of the sciences, arts and letters.