Since the 1960s, a generation of coastal people from both regions shared sought better opportunities to improve their lives, families, and community through a profession at the university level.

Over the decade, BICU attracted people from the coast to migrate to the Pacific of the country, particularly to León and Managua, to pursue a professional career.

In the 1980s, the number of students from the northern and southern regions who entered higher education, inside and outside the country, also developed in Bluefields and Bilwi, university extension programs of the UNAN Managua.

In 2000, the statutes that legitimize the university were reformed and published to strengthen internal organizational processes under democratic, pluralistic, and participatory principles.

The unions that represent the raison d'etre of the university are made up of students, teachers, workers and social agents of cooperation have been consolidated.