| NUC University | |
| Native Name: | National College of Business and Technology |
| Image Alt: | The NUC University Logo. |
| Motto: | Excellentia Integritas Novus Comprǒmissum |
| Mottoeng: | A new commitment and integrity of excellence |
| Type: | Private, for profit |
| Affiliation: | EduK Group |
| President: | José Córdova[1] |
| Head Label: | NUC University |
| Faculty: | 221 |
| Students: | 20,000[2] |
| City: | Bayamón |
| Country: | Puerto Rico |
| Campus: | Both Urban and Suburban |
| Former Names: | National University College |
| Colors: | Navy and gold |
| Accreditation: | CHEPR, MSCHE, ACICS |
NUC University, (formerly known as National University College) is the largest for-profit private university in Puerto Rico with its main campus in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.[3] The university was founded in 1982 as the National College, and offers undergraduate studies and graduate studies in health, business administration, education, information technology, and criminal justice.[4]
NUC University is accredited by the Council of Higher Education of Puerto Rico and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
In 1980, a steering committee, led by Jesús Siverio Orta, worked on the planning and organization of the institution. 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.[5]
NUC University began its educational program with four classrooms on the third floor of the Ramos Building located in the city of Bayamón, which also had a typing laboratory, a pharmacy laboratory and a library. Initially, the institution only offered Pharmacy Assistant and Secretarial Science programs. The first group of students from these two programs graduated in July 1983.[6]
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. In January 2011, NUC opened an additional location in Caguas, Puerto Rico and in June 2014, it became the Caguas Campus.
In March 2017, NUC opened a Campus in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and in November 2018, the institution opened it most recent campus, the South Florida Campus in the State of Florida.
The multi-campus school is one of the largest secondary education institutions in Puerto Rico. 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. Likewise, the university is committed to the professional accreditation of its academic programs. For this reason, some academic units have programs accredited by organizations, such as:
The institution is also authorized and certified by the following entities: