Nature
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.
Read MoreHistory and Culture
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.
Read MoreArboretum UFM
UFM’s campus is located within a remnant of montane forest, primarily dominated by oaks, in the capital city. These patches of forest within the city deserve care and attention, given that they play a very important role in the protection of a number of species of flora and fauna that are being threatened by population…
Read MoreDoctor Rafael Minondo Scholarship for Excellence
Rafael Minondo Herrera was a Guatemalan surgeon and physician, and also a philanthropist. He dedicated his professional life to volunteer work, research, and teaching. He was recognized for his contributions to endocrine surgery, especially thyroid. He first introduced primary closure of the common bile duct (1959), lymphangiography (1961), cardiac pacemaker implantation (first in Central America)…
Read MoreManuel F. Ayau Society
The decision to found UFM was prompted by the increased influence of socialism in academic circles. Thus, in 1971, when Manuel F. Ayau (Muso) and his friends founded UFM, they achieved something that few people had done, or even attempted before: they developed a new model for promoting classical liberal ideas in the world. With…
Read MoreITA scholarship program (Promoting Academic Talent)
For the neediest families, especially those living in marginal areas, the opportunity to send their children to school is virtually none existent. For those who do manage to complete studies to this level, the opportunity to attend university is out of reach. Thus, in 1996, the university’s scholarship program was founded, with the purpose of…
Read MoreScholarships
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…
Read MoreLiberty in Action
The purpose of Liberty in Action is to advance the mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, using an interdisciplinary learning model, in which students apply the principles of liberty to societal challenges: devising and creating prototype private, voluntary, and free market solutions. Liberty in Action courses, a requirement for all the university’s students, facilitate collaborative experiences,…
Read MoreMarket Trends
Created in 2015, it seeks to analyze economic movements and especially those that occur in financial markets. Data is analyzed, preserving the core of the Austrian School of Economics, bringing it closer to a credit theory compatible with current financial practices. This same project is used for the analysis of high level, practical, economic and…
Read MoreCenter for the Analysis of Public Choice —CADEP—
James Buchanan, Nobel laureate in economics and holder of an honorary doctorate from UFM, visited the university in 2002 to inaugurate CADEP; founded with the aim of promoting the theory of public choice, an analytical tool that uses economics to study politics. Public choice analyzes state activity and collective decision-making, as well as the individuals…
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