[1] The name of the university is derived from a royal figure in Sunda Kingdom, King Siliwangi of Pajajaran.
[2] Before UNSIL was founded, the Educational Supervision and Administration Academy (Indonesian: Akademi Administrasi dan Supervisi Pendidikan, abbreviated as ADSUP) was established in its place in 1977.
It was originally a branch of Padjajaran University’s Faculty of Social and Political Sciences that went defunct due to a government regulation at the time.
UNSIL officially started operating as a private university in 1980 and offered courses that now become a part of the Faculty of Teaching and Education Science as well as the Faculty of Economics.
In 2014, due to a presidential decree signed by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, UNSIL became a public university.