[4] The school transferred to Culiacán in 1874 due to political reasons and its name changed to Colegio Rosales.

[5] Towards the end of the Mexican Revolution, in 1918 it received "autonomy status" and re-named as the Universidad de Occidente.

A year later, in 1874 the school was transferred to the newly appointed state capital of Culiacán and re-named Colegio Rosales.

Towards the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1918, the Governor of the state of Sinaloa, Ramón F. Iturbe, was in favor of granting the university more autonomy to administer and decide its own academic programs and the school was re-named to Universidad de Occidente, however, in 1922 the schools was changed to Colegio Civil Rosales.

[5] In 1937, under the influence of then Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, the school was re-named Universidad Socialista del Noroeste (Socialist University of the Northwest) as a promoter and supporter of the social reforms taking place in that time period.