Central University of Nicaragua


The Central University of Nicaragua was founded in 1998. It is nationally accredited and recognized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Nicaragua via the Council of National Universities in official government session No. 10-1998, and approved by the Assembly of the Republic Decree No. 2822 according to the Constitution of the Republic and the Law on the Autonomy of Institutions of Higher Education. University launched the Institutional Auto-Evaluation process following the adoption of Law 704 law establishing the National System for Quality Assurance in Education, which regulates the National Council on Evaluation and Accreditation, CNEA.
The Central University of Nicaragua is an accredited university by Accreditation Service for International Colleges and Universities from 2013 to 2017 in UK. The university is listed with the International Association of Universities, an organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. International Association of Universities also listed UCN in the international handbook of accredited universities published by the United Nations.

Division of International and European Programs

The recent history of the UCN is characterized by collaborations with universities in different parts of the world. On 22 March 2012 the UCN signed in Managua the agreement: "International Confederation of Higher Education" with the following universities: United Mahatma Gandhi University in India, Universidad de Cundinamarca in Colombia, Universidad de la Salle in Costa Rica, 3G University in the UAE, Fundación Universitaria Samuel Hahnemann in Colombia and Universidad Azteca in Mexico, particularly in the context of the double doctorate EdD-PhD offered in the Department of European Programs in Innsbruck, Austria and UCN European Programs is registered and approved in Austria by AQ Austria. UCN also collaborates with Texila American University, Guyana, to provide distance learning programs to students from over 45 countries. In Nicaragua, it has 3 locations and has 6,473 on-campus students as well as 4,251 distance learning students as at 2014/2015.

Faculties and Programs

The University runs Master of Art program in International Relations; Master of Business Administration, Master of Science programs in Alternative Medicine, Human Resources, Finance, Marketing, Banking, Economics, Environmental Sciences and Inter-university Doctorate degree programs. It also offers Postgraduate Degree Programs in Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Rehabilitation and Therapy, Public Law as well as Postgraduate Diploma in Finance, Criminal Law and Commercial Law.

Universities Rankings

Universidad Central de Nicaragua rank number 9 of 29 in Universities Ranking Reviews of Nicaragua.