Study at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá: 2026 Guide

The first thing you notice arriving on campus at Carrera 7 in Bogotá’s Chapinero district is the silence. Beyond the gates of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the roar of an eight-million-strong capital suddenly falls away, and students carrying coffee from the campus cafeteria cross between brick buildings and lawns. In the distance, above the rooftops, the green wall of Monserrate hill looms over everything. This isn’t a recruitment brochure - it’s an ordinary Tuesday at one of the oldest universities in the Americas, founded by the Jesuits in 1623 (QS World University Rankings 2026: position #371, TopUniversities).

Javeriana is one of Colombia’s three highest-ranked universities. In the QS World University Rankings 2026 it sits at #371 worldwide (QS / TopUniversities), in the same band as well-known universities across Europe and Asia. But for an international applicant, the ranking number is far from the whole story. Javeriana is a private, Catholic university where teaching happens in Spanish, tuition is billed in Colombian pesos, and admissions work nothing like the UK’s UCAS or the US Common App. This guide covers who Javeriana genuinely makes sense for - and how to get in.

One disclaimer up front: this isn’t a university for everyone. If you don’t speak Spanish and have no plans to learn it, skip this one. But if Latin America pulls at you, if you’re drawn to development studies, human rights, regional anthropology, or you simply want to study somewhere none of your classmates have ever gone - keep reading.

Where Does Javeriana Rank Globally?

Numbers usually come first, so let’s start there. In the QS World University Rankings 2026, Javeriana sits at #371 worldwide (TopUniversities). In the Colombian context, that’s the top tier - in the same breath as Universidad de los Andes and the public Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Three universities, three models: Andes is an expensive, elite private college; Nacional is a powerful, low-cost public university; and Javeriana sits in between as a private Jesuit institution with a long tradition.

Other rankings paint a more nuanced picture. In the CWTS Leiden 2025 research-publication ranking, Javeriana comes in at 1731, and in Times Higher Education it lands in the broad 1501+ band. That’s a reminder that global research rankings tend to favor English-language universities with billion-dollar budgets. What matters more for real-world quality: the university has an h-index of 219 across more than 34,000 published papers and over half a million citations (data from the College Council Atlas, aggregating OpenAlex). Its strongest research areas are Latin American history and politics, along with conflict and peace studies in Colombia. It’s a field where Javeriana is genuinely one of the world’s leading voices.

In the THE 2026 subject rankings, Javeriana performs best in education (501-600 band), law (401+), and humanities and psychology (601). That’s a useful signal: if you’re drawn to the social sciences, humanities, law, or psychology in a Latin American context, you’re looking at one of the region’s stronger universities. If you’re after world-leading engineering or hard sciences, PUC Chile or Tecnológico de Monterrey will rank higher in those disciplines.

After years of watching rankings, I’ve landed on one conviction: the QS number is the least interesting thing about Javeriana. Its real value is regional specialization. Nowhere in the US, UK, or continental Europe will you find a lecturer who teaches the FARC peace process, Andean political economy, or Amazonian anthropology the way someone does who studied it up close, on the ground. That’s knowledge you can’t buy in London or Boston.

It’s worth pausing on the history, because it explains a lot. Javeriana was founded in 1623 as a university of the Society of Jesus - more than a decade before Harvard (1636) and long before any university existed in what is now the United States. It’s one of the oldest universities in the Americas, though earlier foundations also operated in Bogotá and Lima. Javeriana ran for more than a century until the Jesuits were expelled from Spain’s American colonies in 1767, before being reactivated in 1930 and growing continuously ever since. That continuity of Jesuit educational tradition - with its emphasis on forming the whole person, ethics, and social service - isn’t a marketing slogan. It genuinely shapes the curriculum and the culture of the place. If you’ve seen how Jesuit universities operate in the US, such as Georgetown, you’ll recognize the same DNA: a serious approach to the humanities, debate, and social responsibility.

The second fact worth knowing is accreditation. Colombia’s Ministry of Education has granted Javeriana acreditación institucional de alta calidad status - the country’s highest quality mark, awarded to only a portion of universities and periodically re-verified. In practice, that matters more than the QS position, because it’s this certification that determines the value of the degree inside Colombia itself and makes it easier to have it recognized abroad.

How Does Admission to Javeriana Work, Step by Step?

This is where the real difference from US or UK admissions begins. Javeriana does not run a holistic admissions process in the Common App style, doesn’t use a single points threshold the way Denmark’s CBS does with its kvote system, and doesn’t route applications through a central portal like UCAS. Every program (in Spanish: programa) has its own procedure, and you apply directly through the university’s own portal.

As an international applicant with a foreign secondary-school qualification, you apply under the Estudiante Extranjero category - the foreign-student track. This is a separate pathway for people from outside Colombia, as well as for Colombians who completed secondary school abroad. According to the official javeriana.edu.co/admisiones portal, the process assesses candidates across three dimensions: attitude, aptitude, and knowledge - with the specific tools depending on the program.

What does that mean in practice? Some programs evaluate knowledge based on results from the Colombian Saber 11 exam (roughly Colombia’s equivalent of a school-leaving exam) or a foreign exam, others let you choose between an exam score and your transcript alone, and some programs - especially the arts, architecture, and a handful of humanities tracks - require an admissions interview or aptitude test. What matters for an international applicant is that your secondary-school results (A-levels, IB Diploma, US High School Diploma with SAT/AP scores, or your national equivalent) get evaluated as part of this procedure; there’s no fixed, publicly announced cut-off the way there is at many European universities.

Step by step, it looks like this:

1. Create an account on Javeriana’s admissions portal (javeriana.edu.co/admisiones) and select your program and intake (admissions run twice a year - for the semester starting in January and the one starting in July).
2. Pay the application fee (derechos de inscripción) - paid separately for each program you apply to.
3. Submit your documents: your secondary-school leaving certificate and transcripts, translated into Spanish by a certified/sworn translator and apostilled (most English-speaking countries are parties to the Hague Apostille Convention, so an apostille is sufficient rather than full consular legalization - confirm your own country’s status). Add proof of Spanish proficiency if your program requires it.
4. Complete the required assessment component - an exam, interview, or aptitude test, if your program includes one.
5. Wait for your decision and, once admitted, start the process for a Type V student visa through Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with residency paperwork (Cédula de Extranjería).

Practical advice from us: start the credential-evaluation process for your secondary-school qualification much earlier than you think you need to. Our separate guide to converting school-leaving grades for study-abroad admissions walks through the logic universities apply when they evaluate a foreign qualification. And since the entire degree is taught in Spanish, a language certificate (DELE B2 or higher) is the best investment you can make before applying - it strengthens your file and simplifies the visa paperwork.

What sets this process apart from what you may know from other countries? First, there’s no centrally announced admissions quota. At many European universities, or at Denmark’s CBS, you know in advance roughly what score you need; here, each program’s committee evaluates candidates on its own criteria, and the outcome depends on the profile of the whole applicant pool in that intake. Second, there are two intakes a year: the Colombian academic year splits into two semesters starting around January and July, so if you miss one deadline, the next one is six months away, not a full year. Third, there’s no requirement for recommendation letters or a personal essay of the kind common in US holistic admissions. This isn’t a process where you tell the story of your life - it’s one where you demonstrate that you meet the academic requirements of a specific program and, for some programs, show aptitude.

It’s worth seeing how differently these systems can work. The British personal statement submitted through UCAS is an essay about your passion for a subject; the American application process for Harvard is a complex, multi-factor holistic evaluation. Javeriana sits closer to the continental European model: what matters is whether you meet the requirements of a specific program. Less narrative, more concreteness - which many international applicants actually find like a relief.

Which Programs Are Worth Studying at Javeriana?

According to SNIES, Colombia’s central registry of degree programs (the same source our Atlas draws from), Javeriana offers 76 undergraduate programs (universitaria), 92 master’s programs (maestría), 14 doctoral programs (doctorado), and more than 200 postgraduate specializations. All 76 undergraduate programs are listed with Spanish as the language of instruction. That’s the fundamental fact you need to accept going in: at the undergraduate level, you will not find a complete degree taught in English. English shows up in individual courses and in some of the exchange-student offering, but it doesn’t replace Spanish.

What’s worth considering? Javeriana’s strongest areas track its research profile. Social sciences and the humanities are the heart of the university - anthropology, sociology, political science, history, philosophy, literature. If you’re interested in Latin America as a subject of study, not just a place on a map, this is where the faculty who researched these topics up close actually teach. Law (Ciencias Jurídicas) is one of the country’s most prestigious departments, and Colombian lawyers who studied at Javeriana go on to the country’s highest institutions.

Communications and journalism is another flagship: the Comunicación y Lenguaje department has a strong reputation across Colombia. Psychology performs well in THE’s subject rankings. And medicine is the flagship - and the most expensive - program, with its own teaching hospital, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, one of Bogotá’s leading medical centers.

It’s worth pausing on medicine, because this is the question that comes up most often: studying it in Colombia and then practicing back in your home country are two entirely different things. A Colombian medical degree doesn’t automatically grant you the right to practice in the EU, UK, US, or most other jurisdictions - you’ll face a credential-recognition process and licensing exams specific to wherever you plan to practice: in the US that typically runs through ECFMG certification and the USMLE sequence; in the UK, registration with the General Medical Council; in the EU, a national recognition procedure through the relevant medical licensing body. That path is long and uncertain. If your goal is to practice medicine in your home country, it’s usually more realistic to study medicine there or in a country whose degrees are directly recognized. Medicine at Javeriana makes the most sense if you’re planning a career in Colombia or the wider region. The same caution applies to law and architecture - regulated professions where the degree is only the first step toward a license to practice.

For students focused on the hard sciences, the offering is thinner than at purely technical universities. The engineering school exists and is solid by Colombian standards, but if your dream is world-leading engineering, you’d do better aiming at PUC Chile, UNAM in Mexico, or Brazil’s USP/Unicamp. Javeriana shines where people, society, and region intersect.

One organizational quirk that surprises many international students: Colombian undergraduate degrees (pregrados) typically run longer than in Europe - usually 8-10 semesters, or four to five years, with medicine stretching to 12-14 semesters. That’s closer to the American model than the three-year Bologna-style undergraduate degree common across the EU. Coursework also opens with a broad general-education component (formación integral, a legacy of the Jesuit ideal of well-rounded formation) before you go deep into your specialization. If you’re used to a system where you study nothing but your major from day one, this takes some adjustment - but plenty of students end up appreciating the breadth in hindsight.

It’s also worth knowing that Javeriana has a second campus in Cali (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali), in western Colombia, with a separate, smaller program offering and its own admissions process. This guide focuses on the larger, main campus in Bogotá, but if a warmer climate and proximity to the Pacific coast appeal to you, the Cali campus is a genuine alternative - just remember to apply directly to that campus.

What Do Tuition and Life in Bogotá Cost?

This is where the biggest surprise hits many international applicants used to US-style sticker prices. Tuition at Javeriana varies enormously by program - and, crucially, international students pay exactly the same rate as Colombians. There’s no separate, higher international fee, unlike at UK or Australian universities.

The range is wide. The cheapest pregrados - library science (Ciencia de la Información) and some teacher-training degrees - start around 7.16 million COP per semester, roughly US$2,000 at the June 2026 exchange rate (1 USD ≈ 3,570 COP, Wise). At the other end sits medicine: 37.32 million COP per semester - about US$10,450, which according to Infobae makes it the third most expensive medical program in Colombia. A typical humanities or social-science program falls around 13-16 million COP (roughly US$3,600-4,500) per semester.

Annual tuition alone therefore runs from around US$4,000 a year (cheapest programs) to more than US$20,900 a year (medicine). For comparison: annual tuition for an international student at Imperial College London can top £40,000, and US universities typically charge US$50,000-60,000 a year. Even in its medical program, Javeriana is cheaper.

The second piece is the cost of living in Bogotá, and this is where the real advantage shows up. Colombia’s capital is noticeably cheaper than Western Europe or North America. A room in a shared apartment in the student-heavy Chapinero district runs about 1-1.8 million COP a month (roughly US$280-500). Food, public transport (the TransMilenio system), and incidentals add another 1-1.5 million COP. A realistic monthly student budget comes out to about 2.2-3.5 million COP, or roughly US$620-980 - an amount that would barely cover a studio apartment in many Western capital cities.

Let’s add it up honestly, because only the total tells the real story. Take a typical social-science program at ~15 million COP tuition per semester (30 million COP a year, roughly US$8,400) plus ~3 million COP a month in living costs (36 million COP a year, roughly US$10,100). That comes to around US$18,500 for a full year of study and living in the capital. That sounds like a lot until you set it next to a UK university, where international tuition alone can exceed that figure, before adding London-level living costs - it’s easy to clear US$35,000-45,000 a year there. Javeriana sits in an entirely different price bracket, despite being a private university.

There is a catch worth stating plainly, though: there’s no tuition subsidy tied to citizenship or bloc membership. At many public universities in Germany, tuition is minimal or free regardless of nationality (Baden-Württemberg’s fee for non-EU students is one of the few exceptions), and in the Czech Republic, EU citizens studying in Czech-taught programs pay nothing. At Javeriana, you’re a paying customer of a private university, full stop - there’s no discounted rate based on where you’re from. That means a comparison with free or near-free German public universities favors Germany on price alone. People choose Javeriana not because it’s the cheapest option, but because it offers something the cheaper European alternatives don’t: genuine immersion in Latin America.

Spanish, Exchange Programs, and Funding: How to Make It Work

I’m returning to this point deliberately, because it’s the single most important thing in this whole guide: without Spanish, there is no Javeriana. All 76 undergraduate programs are taught in Spanish, and lectures, readings, exams, and coursework all run in that language. A realistic minimum is B2 - the level that lets you follow an academic argument, not just order a coffee. Best confirmed with a DELE certificate (Instituto Cervantes) or SIELE. The good news: Spanish is one of the more approachable languages for an English speaker to learn, and a year of intensive study before departure is usually enough to get you started.

A second path - often more sensible than a full independent application for an entire degree - is an exchange program. Javeriana has more than 450 international partnership agreements (university data) and is a frequent destination for Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (if you’re enrolled at a European university) as well as bilateral agreements with universities elsewhere in the world. If you’re already studying somewhere, check with your international or study-abroad office whether an agreement with Javeriana exists. A semester or two on exchange gives you a real taste of Latin America, transferable academic credit, and often some funding, without going through the full Estudiante Extranjero application process. That’s our recommendation for most international students: start with an exchange, and only consider a full degree afterward if it really grabs you.

Why do I push exchange this hard? Because it’s a low-risk, reversible decision. A full degree in Bogotá is a four- to five-year commitment, tens of thousands of dollars in total cost, and a solo battle with visas and degree recognition. A semester on exchange is a few months, keeps your enrollment status at your home university intact, comes with an established administrative pathway, and often includes funding that covers part of the cost. If, after one semester, you decide Latin America is where you belong, you have a real basis for a bigger commitment. If not, you go home with the experience, the language, and the stories - not an abandoned degree on the other side of the world. That same “test it before you commit” logic is what we recommend for most unconventional destinations.

For those aiming at a full degree, it’s worth knowing about ICETEX, the Colombian government agency that handles scholarships and student loans, including programs open to international students. On the funding side back home, many countries run national agencies that co-fund study-abroad placements - Germany’s DAAD or the UK’s Turing Scheme are well-known examples - so check what your own ministry of education, national exchange agency, or university’s international office offers. If you’re a US citizen, our separate guide to Fulbright and other national exchange scholarships explains the mechanics of that funding route (it’s mainly relevant to exchanges connected to the US, so less directly useful for Colombia specifically, but worth understanding how it works). If you’re weighing European alternatives with funding attached, take a look at our guide to scholarships for studying in Europe. Javeriana itself runs internal becas (scholarships), but these are generally aimed at lower-income Colombian students.

“In our practice, Latin America is still a niche - for every dozen inquiries about the US or the UK, we get maybe one about Colombia or Mexico. But the handful of clients who do go usually know exactly what they want: they speak the language, they have a specific regional interest, and they see their degree as a gateway into international development work or diplomacy. For that kind of applicant, Javeriana is a bullseye.”

• Jakub Andre, Founder of College Council, Indiana University Kelley ‘20

If you’re still set on an English-taught pathway in the region, a few Latin American universities offer more English-language programs than Javeriana does - check our guides to Tecnológico de Monterrey and PUCP in Peru. And if you’re weighing a broader set of destinations, we also have a full guide to studying abroad.

What Is Student Life Like in Bogotá?

Bogotá isn’t an easy city at first glance - an eight-million-person metropolis sitting at 2,640 meters (8,660 feet) above sea level (higher than any peak in Western Europe outside the Alps), with a cool, spring-like climate year-round and a completely different energy from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. But it’s also a city with a thriving cultural scene, third-wave coffee shops, world-class museums (Museo del Oro, Museo Botero), and weekends you can spend hiking up Monserrate or visiting the nearby Zipaquirá salt cathedral.

Javeriana’s campus sits in Chapinero, one of the better-connected and more student-oriented neighborhoods. That’s a real asset: you’re close to the academic heart of the city, cafes, nightlife, and the TransMilenio transit backbone. The university itself is full of student organizations, research groups (semilleros), and cultural events - the strongly Catholic, Jesuit ethos translates into a genuine emphasis on volunteering, social justice, and community work.

And safety, because I know it’s the first question on most parents’ minds. Bogotá calls for ordinary common sense - like any major Latin American metropolis. The local motto no dar papaya (literally “don’t give away papaya,” meaning don’t hand people an easy opportunity) sums it up: don’t flash an expensive phone on public transport, avoid empty streets after dark, use trusted ride-hailing apps. Student and academic neighborhoods are generally calm, and the last decade has brought Colombia enormous improvement. It’s a different world from the 1990s images many people abroad still carry in their heads.

From what we’ve seen: if you arrive with an open mind, speak Spanish, and treat the city with respect, Bogotá gives it back tenfold. International students who end up there - often through an exchange program - tend to come home with stories nobody gets from a semester in Spain or the Netherlands. That’s precisely the difference that makes Latin America worth considering as an alternative to the more obvious European destinations.

Let’s return for a moment to that altitude, because in practice it makes itself felt. For your first few days at 2,640 meters, you may notice mild fatigue and shortness of breath climbing stairs. That’s normal - your body adjusts within a week or two. The climate is remarkably stable year-round: daytime highs around 18-20°C (64-68°F), nights dropping to 7-9°C (45-48°F), and rain that can fall at any time. Forget European-style summer and winter. Bogotá is a permanent cool spring. Here’s the tip you won’t find in any brochure: pack layers and a waterproof jacket, not the summer clothes you might expect from a “tropical” country like Colombia. A warm cup of Colombian coffee in your hand stops being a tourist ritual pretty fast and becomes your actual strategy for a chilly evening.

And beyond your studies? Colombia is one of the most geographically diverse countries on Earth. From Bogotá, a weekend trip gets you to the coffee region (Eje Cafetero), colonial Cartagena on the Caribbean coast, the wax-palm-filled Cocora Valley, or Medellín - a city that transformed itself from a 1990s symbol of violence into one of the region’s most innovative hubs. For an international student, this isn’t just a degree - it’s a gateway to a continent that barely registers from Europe or North America. If you’re weighing the broader Latin American landscape, compare Javeriana with Brazil’s UFRJ or the options in our general guide to choosing a university abroad.

Is a Javeriana Degree Worth It? Career Outlook and Recognition

This is an area where it’s easy to oversell, so let’s stick to the facts. Javeriana is not a university whose name opens doors in London’s financial district or Silicon Valley. But its degree carries genuine weight in two specific contexts.

The first is a career in Latin America or international development. Javeriana graduates go on to Colombian and regional institutions, NGOs, UN agencies operating in the region, think tanks, and companies doing business across Latin America. If you see your future working with the region - whether in diplomacy, development, or business with exposure to Latin American markets - a degree from a leading Colombian university plus fluent Spanish is a combination no university back home can give you.

Think of it in terms of positioning. You go home with a degree from a well-known European or North American university, and you’re one of thousands. You go home with a degree from a top Colombian university, fluent Spanish, and genuine regional knowledge, and suddenly you’re the one person in your graduating class that a company expanding into Latin America actually needs. This isn’t a path for everyone, but for someone with a concrete regional plan, it offers an edge you won’t buy on any popular, well-trodden track. In our practice, it’s precisely that “unconventional” profile that often turns out to be the biggest asset in the job market - provided there’s real competence behind it, not just an exotic line on a résumé.

The second context is academic specialization. In conflict and peace studies, Andean history, regional anthropology, or Latin American political economy, Javeriana is one of the best addresses in the world. The bibliometric data backs this up: the university’s two most-published research areas are literally “Latin American history and politics” and “conflict, peace, and violence in Colombia” (based on OpenAlex data in the College Council Atlas). For anyone planning a doctorate or academic career in these fields, a semester or a degree from Bogotá is real capital - you get access to researchers, archives, and fieldwork that simply don’t exist in Europe or North America.

A third, often underrated context is language as a professional skill. Fluent Spanish acquired over several years of study in a Spanish-speaking environment is not the same as B2 from a language course - it’s the level at which you can negotiate a contract, deliver a lecture, or write a report. Spanish is the world’s second most widely spoken native language, and for an employer with exposure to Latin American or Spanish-speaking markets, a candidate with that level of language ability is genuinely rare. It’s a skill Javeriana hands you almost as a byproduct of the degree itself.

On the question of recognition back home: a Colombian university degree isn’t automatically equivalent to a degree from your home country. If needed, it goes through a formal degree-recognition procedure run by your home country’s relevant body - in Europe, typically the ENIC-NARIC network; in the US and Canada, credential-evaluation services such as WES - and regulated professions (medicine, law, architecture) require a separate licensing process on top of that. Javeriana does hold Colombia’s alta calidad accreditation and carries real international recognition, which makes that whole process easier. Before you commit, make sure to check the specific pathway for your field - this isn’t a formality you can leave for later.

Bottom line: Javeriana is an excellent choice for a narrow but real slice of international applicants. For everyone else - people who just want to “study abroad” without a concrete tie to the region - a better fit is likely cheaper, English-taught European programs or the classic destinations we break down in our guide to whether studying abroad is worth the money.

Conclusion: Who Is Javeriana Really For?

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana doesn’t fit any of the ready-made templates most international applicants use to think about studying abroad. It isn’t tuition-free like German public universities, it isn’t English-taught like Dutch programs, and it doesn’t carry the brand recognition of Oxbridge or the Ivy League. What it does have is something none of those universities offer: the best address in the world for genuinely understanding Latin America, at one of the oldest universities in the Americas, for a fraction of the cost of a Western degree.

For a narrow slice of international applicants - the ones with Spanish in their head and the region in their heart - this could be the best educational decision of their life. For everyone else, it’s worth looking elsewhere. And that distinction, I hope, is exactly what separates this guide from a marketing brochure.

Next Steps

1. Honestly assess your Spanish - if you’re below B2, start an intensive course and plan for the DELE exam. This is a prerequisite, not an option.
2. Decide: exchange or a full degree - for most international applicants, a semester through Erasmus+ or a bilateral agreement is a more sensible first step than an independent application for the full program.
3. Get your secondary-school qualification evaluated - start with our guide to converting school-leaving grades for study abroad and see how your profile stacks up.
4. Check your program’s requirements at javeriana.edu.co/admisiones - the process differs by program, so read the specific page for your field.
5. Plan your budget and visa - add up tuition plus living costs in Bogotá, and get ahead of the Type V student visa process early.
6. Talk it through with an advisor - at College Council, we can help assess whether Javeriana fits your profile and goals, and compare it against other options.

If you’re weighing other destinations in the region, check out our guides to PUC Chile, Universidad de Chile, UBA in Buenos Aires, and UNAM in Mexico. And if you’re still weighing Latin America against more conventional destinations, start with our general guide to studying abroad. Good luck, and ¡buena suerte!

Sources and Methodology

1. QS Quacquarelli Symonds - QS World University Rankings 2026: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (#371)
2. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - official admissions portal and academic mobility / internationalization
3. Infobae - Colombia’s most expensive university programs (April 2026)
4. Noticias Caracol - Javeriana pregrados costing under 8 million COP
5. SNIES SACES - Colombia’s central registry of degree programs (Ministerio de Educación Nacional), aggregated via the College Council Atlas (33,000 HEIs)
6. Times Higher Education - university profile and 2026 subject rankings
7. Wise - COP/USD and COP/PLN exchange rates (June 2026)
8. College Council - university data Atlas (OpenAlex, ROR, Wikidata QID Q1517478); internal data from our advisory practice

Financial and admissions data reflects June 2026 and changes annually - verify current figures directly with the university before applying. Tuition is given in Colombian pesos (COP) with approximate conversions to US dollars at 1 USD ≈ 3,570 COP, and to euros/pounds at roughly 1 USD ≈ €0.93 ≈ £0.79 (indicative, mid-2026 rates).