The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) is the designated agency within USSOCOM to conduct joint Special Operations Force (SOF) education and thus is tasked with and directed to provide relevant, realistic, leading-edge education opportunities to military and civilian special operations forces personnel around the world, located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, United States.

The university conducts off-station tutorials and courses as well as video teleconferencing instruction to supported units worldwide.

[2] JSOU delivers unique SOF educational opportunities through residence and distance learning (and combined) courses.

JSOU faculty are regularly called upon to teach SOF-related blocks of instruction at PME institutions across the country.

Additionally, through their mobile training teams, they conduct educational events for countries all over the world on a wide range of subjects, including support to resistance, the strategic effects of SOF, and design.