The Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI) is a private, non-profit institution, established as such in 1988. Originally from the Valparaíso Business School that was instituted in 1953 by the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation, depository of the businessman's legacy and public man Don 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 is committed to providing professional training with high academic standards, helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge through high-level research, and transferring this knowledge for the benefit of society. Réduire