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1942 – Act No. 135 of May 7, 1942, amendment to the university, created the Higher Education Council as the governing board of the institution and regulator of the higher education system in Puerto Rico. 1946 – The university received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The campus was founded in 1967 and after thirteen years became known as Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Arecibo (CUTA). The campus gained autonomy in 1998 based on the UPR board's Law 16 of June 16, 1993. [2] In 2010 the campus went on strike as part of the 2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes.
Student benefits are payable if the student meets the Federal standards for full-time attendance (FTA) (RS 00205.300C.); the law of the State in which the home school is located recognizes home school as an educational institution (El); the home school the student attends meets the requirements of State law in which the home school is located ...
This list of universities and colleges in Puerto Rico includes colleges and universities in Puerto Rico that grant bachelor's degrees and/or post-graduate master's and doctorate degrees.
In 1974 it earned accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the Puerto Rico Higher Education Council. In 2004, it began the doctoral program in Environmental Sciences and the advent of the Strategic Plan for Scientific Research. Today, enrollment exceeds 15,000 students of which over 450 are doctoral level.
In 1944, the institute was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, thus becoming the first liberal arts college to receive such accreditation in Puerto Rico, as well as the first outside the continental United States. This accreditation has been maintained over the years.
At various times the U.S. government has investigated changes to the accreditation system. In 2002 the House of Representatives Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness criticized the system. [31] Accreditation was a major topic of the Spellings Commission, which released its report on September 26, 2006. [33]
In 1984 it opened the Arecibo Campus in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and in 2003 the Río Grande Campus in Río Grande, Puerto Rico. In the following years NUC University started expanding rapidly, establishing a learning center at the San Cristóbal Hospital on September of 2007 in Ponce , Puerto Rico which later became the Ponce Campus on July 10, 2009.