Funding from the government provided the structure and equipment for the institute, and foreign companies gave endowments.

The Universidade Federal da Paraíba was established in December 1960, by state law nº 1,366.

[6] With 64 companies in the area of Information Technology, with a total income of approximately R$27 million a year, the technology sector grows every year in Campina Grande, A reason for the opening of so many enterprises is the quality of higher education in the University of Campina Grande and its major degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computing, as well as the creation of the Technopole of Paraíba Paqtc-PB, which provides financial, institutional and technical support for these new companies.

Multinational companies like Honda, Fiat, Motorola, Coca-Cola, and Samsung recruit graduates each year.

Additionally, those companies and others like Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Petrobras and Northel, Intel, Sony and Foxconn, have formed partnerships with the institution and provide most of the endowment for installation of new laboratories and funding for research projects.