Created in August 24, 1970, he started academic work with the programs of Law, Education and Accounting, in the Convento San Joaquin, known as the Convent of San Francisco and from 1980 he moved to Umbria, south of the city of Cali, beautiful headquarters with a campus of 260,200 square meters, with tennis courts, soccer, basketball, volleyball, Olympic swimming pool, parking, modern technological infrastructure and over 85,000 square meters of buildings for the Academy including an extensive library, laboratories high-tech engineering and design workshops, Mac multimedia room, video laboratory, research laboratory, laboratory of creativity, microcomputers and comfortable rooms classrooms.

Your new laboratory building 'Naranjos', was built under the principles of bioclimatic architecture where environmental sustainability is based on three key areas: climate, optimal use of natural resources and the search for use of recycled materials or Also low energy expenditure, is the first university in southwestern Colombia with a technology and business park where students perform internships, develop their business ideas and research and build their own businesses. The park has four smart towers equipped with the most modern technology that allows students to live their entrepreneurship and research processes.

The academic organization of the University are six faculties: Architecture, Art and Design; Economic and Administrative Sciences; Law and political science; Education, Engineering and Psychology, with 16 degree programs.

Likewise it has a wide range of master's degrees, diplomas and specializations in different areas of knowledge, which guarantees its graduates and the general public updated and further progress in different fields of professional development.