In 1867, the National Congress, headed by Pedro Carbo decreed the founding of the University Board of Guayas, the first of December is installed and has the privilege of awarding degrees and titles, so this date is considered the founding University of Guayaquil. The first was installed in the Faculty of Law in 1868. After a period of political instability, the Organic Law of Education in force since February 1877, creates again the College Board of the Province of Guayas, settling for the second time under the Rector chairmanship of Dr. Francisco Campos Coello, with two faculties: Law and Medicine and Pharmacy founded on November 7, 1877. The University of Guayaquil was created as such by Pedro Carbo, Guayas Supreme Leader in 1883, but This decree was not ratified by the Constituent Assembly of 1884; however, the people no longer stopped calling the University of Guayaquil Guayas College Board modest. With the triumph of the Liberal Revolution in 1897 it gave the law that created the University of Guayaquil, and was one of the first to embrace the University Reformation of Cordova of 1918 rose under the slogan "A better society for better education ". Thus Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador, today is the first university in the country with seventeen faculties that offer 31 undergraduate programs, 7 to technological level with different specializations and 8 sprints, one and two years, has 6 Extensions University on the Coast, and Galapagos province, 14 study centers distances, 5 Higher Institutes Postgraduate Research Institutes and 18;.