Resolution of Emperor Ferdinand I of January 24, 1843 allowed to open in the real-Trading Academy Trade and Technical department, and, if necessary, and field crops.
Department of Accounting and science of correspondence and trade to 1855 headed by Jerzy Kurtsbauer, and after his death - Stefan Kozhma.
Storage and exchange law and the rules of duty and taught monopoly prof. Lviv University Jan Pazhdzyer, geography and history of the trade - Carol Pyehorskyy.
Then teach trading and exchange law was entrusted Rabanne Tsansteynovi, associate professor of Lviv University.
From 1874 to 1877 Technical Academy in turn led Nepomusen Ian Frank, Carol Mashkovsky and August Freund.
Lviv City Council and Chamber of Commerce started collecting donations for the organization of an independent educational trade school.
August 1, 1896 the Ministry of Education faiths and gave consent to establish trade schools in Lviv.
However, World War II, which began Sept. 1 Nazi attack on Poland prevented S.Ruzevychu enter the selected position.
In the period between the world wars in the academy worked renowned scholars: Alexander Dolinsky, Alexander Dombrowski, Charls Irwin, H. Korovich, Franciszek Tomanek, August Tsirhoffer, Theophile Seyfert, Julian Chizhevsky, Eugeniusz Romer, Anthony Vereshchynsky, Kazimierz Ignatovich, Stefan Gurnyak, Stanislav Ruzyevich, Mohamed Sadiq Bey Ahabekzade.
Among the students of the Academy this period one of the leaders of the national liberation movement in Western Ukraine Petro strong, Roman Ilnytskyy, who along with Yaroslav Stetsko June 30, 1941 was proclaimed in Lviv the restoration of Ukrainian statehood, Eugene Zielinski, coherent Oleg Olzhych.
After brutally killing Nazis renowned scientists, former rector of the Academy of Henryk Korovich and Stanislav Ruzevych.
Director of the institute was appointed prominent Ukrainian scientist Vladimir Kucera, and November 19, 1944 - Seeds Garkavenko.
University worked in stifling political atmosphere, the complete absence of freedom of speech and thought.
Much of young professionals who have finished institute, sent to work in the eastern regions of the USSR, as well as in other republics of the Soviet Union.
In September 1977 the Institute Students from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, GDR, Vietnam and later from many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Graduates of the Academy are working in enterprises and organizations of consumer cooperatives, public and private sectors.
The teaching staff of the Academy collaborates with educational institutions in Russia, USA, England, Canada, Austria, Hungary, France, Germany and Poland.
190-year anniversary (2007) many thousands of the Academy met in the prime of his life and opportunities confidently looks to the future Cases Dormitories Hostel number 2.
The institute operates Specialized Scientific Council of the defense of theses in "Economics and business management."
Educational and Scientific Information Institute established September 6, 2010 at the former Department of Computer Technology Lviv Commercial Academy.
Since 2009, the faculty is 2 new laboratories - Laboratory-equipped lab and confectionery that are educational base for training in hotel and restaurant business.
Staff Department constantly improves their skills through training in leading educational institutions (including USA, UK, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia), participation in international scientific conferences.
Classes with students faculty conduct more than seventy teachers, most of whom have advanced degrees and titles, including doctors, professors.
For over twelve years UEFA performs such activities as providing free legal assistance to low-income citizens - Clinic "Pro bono" and providing legal assistance to entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized businesses in the first clinic in Ukraine - "Pro bono business".