Part of its mission states "the University of Guadalajara is a public decentralized body of the State of Jalisco Government, which enjoys autonomy, judicial personality and personal property, whose objective is to form and update the technical, bachelors, professional technicians, professionals, graduates and other human resources required for socioeconomic development; to organize, perform, foster and divulge all scientific, humanistic and technological research; to rescue, preserve, increase and divulge all culture, science and technology."