The Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) is a private university in Lima, Peru, founded on January 5, 1994.

The first admission was on August 4, 1994, and on September 15, the first university courses started with the faculties of engineering, architecture and communications.

In March 1995, the university held a debate called "Creatividad Presidencial" (Presidential Creativity) between Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and Alberto Fujimori.

In that same year, a new system of admission called Selección Preferente was created, for those students who had finished high school in the upper third ranking of their classes.

[3] Previously, UPC had its postgraduate school in the Independencia district, but due to licensing by SUNEDU and for an incident that occurred in February 2017, it had to close.