The purpose of the research was to characterize the means of transfer of knowledge of bioethical principles in the public Universities of La Guajira-Colombia. For this, it was framed within a quantitative, descriptive, field, non-experimental and transectional approach. The information taken account has become a pilot test; Its reliability through the internal reliability method of Cronbach’s Alpha, gave a value of 0.86 (high reliability). The findings allowed to characterize the means of knowledge transfer in the bioethical field in the public universities of La Guajira - Colombia, in the following order of events, figure of learning and map of relations, strategies and actions to be followed in the improvement of the universities public in the region.