ITESO is the Jesuit University of Guadalajara

Founded in 1957, it belongs to the network of over 200 Jesuit universities around the world. It shares with them a 450-year-old educational tradition, historically located at the focal point of world thought and recognized for preparing leaders in all fields of the arts and sciences.

A leading teaching-research institute in western Mexico, ITESO has been recognized as a university of academic excellence by the Mexican Ministry of Education and is the private university with the highest number of academics in the National System of Researchers (SNI).

ITESO has 10,000 students in both undergraduate and graduate programs in the fields of engineering, humanities, management and social sciences.

ITESO offers a wide array of quality academic options for international students, from Spanish and Culture four-week and semester language courses to content courses in English or Spanish with Mexican Students.