Universidad Continental De Las Ciencias Y Las Artes

The Continental University of Sciences and Arts is the legal figure created in 1999 by the College of Arts Foundation to act as university higher education institution, according to the Costa Rican State requirements established by the National Council for Higher Education University Private (CONESUP ).

Its operation was approved at the meeting CONESUP 373 22 4 April 1999. However, the University is born many years before. His early contributions in the history of Costa Rica started when the former School of Ceramics, built by great exponents of plastic, theorists and art historians of the period was created.

This school, then joined together with three other houses learning initiative to found the University of Central America (UACA), the first private university in the country, which gave way to the College of Fine Arts 1 ran this institution for 23 years, from 21 October 1976 until 1999, when it became independent and founded the Continental University of Sciences and Arts (UCCART).