EAFIT University[1] (originally the acronym in Spanish: Escuela de Administración, Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico, «School of Administration, Finance and Technological Institute») is a private Colombian university located in Medellín offering 23 undergraduate programs, 70 specializations, 34 masters, and six doctoral programs.

The university offers degrees in various disciplines through its schools of Management, Engineering, Law, Finance and Economics, Science, and Humanities.

Professor Javier Toro Martínez was the first rector with a group of 59 students in the school of Business Administration.

The School of Social Sciences and Humanities was opened in 1997, adding new disciplines to an educational center that had been primarily dedicated to Economics.

Dr. Juan Luis Mejía's goal was to integrate the university with the urban background of the city, while at the same time improving and protecting its natural environment.

From that time, it has turned into a referent in the areas of urban planning, sustainable occupancy and social projection.

Besides that, since the opening of the Master's program in Urban and Environmental Processes, urbam also became an academic department of EAFIT.

It now manages a Bachelor's degree in Urban and Habitat Design, part of the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering.