UNIVERSIDAD DE LA COSTACalle 58 # 55 - 66
With the purpose of contributing to the regional educational development at a superior level, the UNIVERSIDAD DE LA COSTA –CUC, was created on November 16, 1970, as a non-profit organization, dedicated to training professionals in the areas of science, technology, humanities, arts and philosophy.
On January 3rd, 1971, the new center started operating at Carrera 42F No. 75B-169 from this city, offering the programs of Architecture, Administration, Law and Civil Engineering, with a license of 154 students. The move to their current seat at Calle 58 No. 55-66, was done on January, 1974. Its legal capacity was granted on April 23, 1971, through Resolution No. 352 issued by the Atlántico Government's Office.
Posteriorly there were studies started in the Faculty of Education Sciences, in the specialties of Educational Psychology, mathematics, modern languages, and physical education, as well as economy in international commerce.
In 1975 was created the Social Economic Research Department (Departamento de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas (DIS)) assigned to the Faculty of Economy, a fact that marked the beginning of the Research Process in CUC.
During the decade of the 90s´ ICFES authorized the functioning of the following programs: ELECTRIC ENGINEERING, ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL, SANITARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, COMPUTER ANALYSIS AND PROGRAMMING, TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, then, the PSYCHOLOGY program.
A diagnosis was made in the mid 1994s in order to determine the efficacy and efficiency of the administrative research in the institution, in the wake of the concerns generated by the approval of Law 30/92. The Board of Directors determines the implementation and commissioning of the Research and Development Center -CID- which starts in 1996, an interdisciplinary entity to which are assigned the Researchers belonging to the former centers of the faculties.
The Post Graduate Programs started on March 16, 1987 with the specialization in Finances and Systems, authorized through the 203 Agreement of October 30, 1986, issued by the ICFES Board of Directors (Colombia Institute for the Evaluation of Superior Education).
Then, in the middle of the year 2000 it is decided to create the Consultancy and Service Rendering Division assigned to the -CID-, taking into account the environment an strengths that the institution has or generates during the next years, with the purpose of helping the institution to maintain its function of social, economic and environmental change in the Caribbean Region.
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA COSTA has responded to the confidence of the regional community by training more than 20000 professionals in the different knowledge areas.