It was not until the first of April, 1982 that the institution began its educational operations in Bayamón, Puerto Rico under the name National College of Business and Technology.

In June of the same year, the committee acquired the Polytechnical Community College, obtaining at the same time its operating license from the Puerto Rico Department of Education with the same rights, privileges and obligations as the predecessor institution.

Today NUC University have 15 campuses, nine of them in the State of Florida, and 13 centers of the IBC technical division.

Puerto Rico Campuses: Florida Campuses: NUC University is authorized by the Council of Higher Education of Puerto Rico and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to offer university studies of the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels, as the case may be.

For this reason, some academic units have programs accredited by organizations, such as: The institution is also authorized and certified by the following entities: