The Universidad del Norte Foundation, in accordance with the principles, values and objectives that have guided it since its creation, has as its mission the integral formation of the person at the level of higher education, and the contribution, through its institutional presence in the community, to the harmonious development of society and the country, especially of the Colombian Caribbean Region.

The Foundation carries out this university work both in the undergraduate and advanced training modalities, characterizing its work by a broad social and humanistic content, and by the emphasis on scientific and investigative foundations to respond to the requirements of the progress of science and the social needs of the region and the country.

The Institution seeks to train its students as thinking, analytical people with solid ethical principles, who conceive innovative ideas so that they participate in an active, entrepreneurial, responsible, honest, critical and pragmatic way in the process of social, economic, and political development. and culture of the community.

The University tends because the training it provides is carried out with suitable, qualified teachers with a deep academic vocation. To support them in this task, it is determined to have the most appropriate and advanced teaching, research and extension methods in contemporary higher education. In this sense, science, technology, the humanities and the arts will continue to be the distinctive institutional axes for student training.

Present in the life of the community through the exercise of its academic functions (teaching, research, extension and services to the external sector), the Universidad del Norte ensures that its directors, professors, students and alumni remain in permanent study, analysis and research of the concrete problems of the community in which they find themselves.

Our institution is committed from its origins, in the present and into the future, with all dimensions of social, economic, political, environmental and cultural development, with social responsibility, staying in its proper place of insertion in society, which is the academic.