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Our core academic courses and schools are funded by tuition dollars operated on a unique business model. As a result, our funding priorities are directed towards the needs of our projects.

Promoting Liberty

Spreading the Ideas of Liberty to Ensure Continuity of Western Values

In our quest to promote libertarian ideas, we have created centers, newsletters, journals, gatherings, publications, and projects, to conduct research, analysis, and dissemination of important concepts related to liberty and their application to real world problems.

Spaces and buildings

Spaces that allow students to make the most of their potential and learn about the ideas of freedom

Each space on the UFM campus continues the legacy of the founders: teaching the principles of a free society through an outstanding higher education. The Muso Ayau Library will protect the legacy of its founder and its spaces will help disseminate the principles of the free society.

Scholarships

Scholarship programs to spread the ideas of liberty throughout Guatemala

UFM attracts the brightest talent and promotes learning through careers, activities, and projects that spread the ideas of liberty. For this purpose, it grants scholarships to support outstanding students with limited means, who otherwise would be unable to pay for their studies. This is how we take the ideas of liberty to every corner of Guatemala.

History and Culture

Understanding History and Culture to Advance the Conquest of Liberty

At UFM, we think that liberty is key to answering the fundamental questions about human action in society; individuals interacting in society through time. We also think that a people should know and understand their past, to be able to advance in the conquest of liberty.

Nature

Individual Responsibility in Environmental Protection and Conservation Through Private Property

Effective environmental protection depends on the establishment of institutions that protect individual rights and recognizing that private property is an essential condition for improving the quality of the environment.

UFM

Imagine the possibilities in a freer world!

Teaching and disseminating the principles of a free society in everything we do.

Leaving it to UFM to decide where your donation is most needed, will allow us to prioritize projects and continue to strive to fulfill our mission. Be a part of the freedom movement.

Why I Give?

Invest in the future of liberty
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Make an impact with
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We have so much we need to do! Be part of the call for freedom campaign and join us in our mission to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons.

UFM VOICES

UFM Voices is a selection of excerpts from interviews, conferences or speeches developed at UFM, in which guests, professors, graduates, and friends share their inspiring libertarian thoughts and ideas.
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George Gilder

Don´t solve
problems

Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Freedom is
not free

Matt Ridley

I am a
great optimist
about the future

Join us on our educational journey
and experience UFM.

UFM is a private, not-for-profit university whose mission is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons.

UFM represents a culture of learning where students and teachers constantly challenge conventional methods to experience a new standard of learning, where knowledge comes from their individual interpretation of readings, lectures, and discussions. Students learn about choices, develop a positive rational capacity to be tolerant of the ideas and rights of others, and make decisions for which they take responsibility. After graduation, they leave with that knowledge and build fulfilling lives.

At UFM ethics is a principle to live by. We trust people to make decisions based on ethical judgments. We graduate students with the common sense and sufficient knowledge to understand how the world works, so that they can dedicate themselves to creative activities with inventiveness and initiative. And by respecting the ethical principles of social coexistence, they will create peace and prosperity.

We hold that entrepreneurship is the engine of creativity and progress, and encourage it through our programs and degrees.

UFM is more than a university campus. Through our various projects, we believe culture opens the door to our imagination and stimulates critical thinking; nature as private property makes conservation an individual responsibility; the understanding and interpretation of history brings a new challenge to future generations. Education then becomes a process of discovery and not the mechanical absorption of ideas or principles.

While every student lives a different experience and every individual makes his/her own learning, they all live and learn to love freedom, and know that it comes with personal responsibility. UFM changes lives, one individual at a time.

Our campus

Sunlit gardens, flowering plants, mature trees, and green spaces at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Central campus at Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Madrid campus
Madrid campus
School of Business
School of Business
Pre-Hispanic ceramic vessels and archaeological artifacts displayed in glass exhibition cases at Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín.
Popol Vuh Museum
Fountain surrounded by lush tropical gardens, a peaceful pond, and a stone pathway at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Fountain at Ludwig von Mises Library

“Liberty

not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

”

Friedrich A. Hayek

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Illuminated Student Center at Universidad Francisco Marroquín at night, surrounded by trees, landscaped lawns, and curved outdoor seating terraces.
Student center
Brick university building overlooking a tranquil pond, surrounded by trees and tropical gardens at Universidad Francisco Marroquín.
Ludwig von Mises Library
Juan Bautista Gutiérrez auditorium
Juan Bautista Gutiérrez auditorium

Invest in the future of liberty
through your donation to UFM!

Make an impact with
a gift to UFM!

We have so much we need to do! Be part of the call for freedom campaign and join us in our mission to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons.