Introduction: This study arose from the need to have a baseline in terms of University Social Responsibility (USR), to subsequently evaluate the impact of the Autonomous University of Manizales in the community, taking as a reference the self-evaluation process and the additional information in terms of introducing improvements that allow the institution to position itself as a high-quality university in the region. This work was developed under the theoretical approach of University Social Responsibility, according to the impacts in the cognitive, social, educational and organizational fields according to the model proposed by the author Francois Vallaeys in 2008.