It has units in the cities of Caxias do Sul, Bento Gonçalves, Vacaria, Canela, Farroupilha, Guaporé, Nova Prata and São Sebastião do Caí, offering more than 150 admission options in nine different areas of knowledge.

The implementation of the first higher education courses in Caxias do Sul took place during the 1950s, a period marked in the history of Brazil due to changes in the economic, social and political field, resulting from the modernization process that the country was going through.

Caxias do Sul was, already in the 1950s, the second metropolis of the state and, like the great urban centers of the country, also lived a period of economic growth and modernization.

Among the new social demands was the creation of new teaching options with the implementation of higher education courses to serve young people in the city and the region.

At the end of the decade, several entities and personalities in the community were mobilizing to obtain authorization from the federal government to install the first higher education courses in the city.

The main campus occupies an extensive area of this neighborhood and was built in a modernist manner, in the form of isolated blocks implanted in a huge garden, which allowed the Institution's continuous physical expansion.

It appears, therefore, that Regionalization, so dreamed and pursued, arrives at the right time; at the full maturity of the participating institutions; in the perpetual joviality of those who launch themselves and persevere in art and science to promote human people through education ".

With a capacity to comfortably receive 755 people, UCS Teatro is a privileged location for holding large academic events, graduations, lectures and student meetings.

In July 2020, the Symphony Orchestra was extinguished after 19 years of intense activity, alleging financial difficulties and problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contributing to the realization of university extension, Vila Olímpica maintains several sports initiation schools, and offers activities directed at its gymnasiums and swimming pool for the internal and external public.

Among its activities, the UCS Olympics Program, launched by the university in 1997, stands out as part of the commemorative activities of its thirty years of foundation, whose purpose is to stimulate the training of athletes in the Olympic modalities, and the partnership with the Institute of Medicine of Sport and Sciences Applied to the Human Movement, an interdisciplinary body that carries out actions aimed at high performance sports.

In order to materialize its educational proposal, CETEC follows a philosophical guideline and a curriculum specially designed for the contemporary youth, who is in search of knowledge, skills and intellectual and ethical autonomy and who therefore needs guidance, encouragement and support to carry out with this stage of your training.

He is guided and supported to assume responsibilities and plan his path towards maturity, building his identity, becoming a citizen prepared to intervene in a positive and transforming way in society.