Margarita University academic activities started on 24 January 2000, at the foot of the holy mountains of the Patron of eastern Venezuela; the Virgen del Valle. Is located on the island of Margarita, Nueva Esparta state, just about 38 kilometers from the north-eastern Venezuelan coast.
it was like a new horizon for our students opened, under the leadership of a group of men and women, closely linked to higher education in Venezuela; Beauperthuy talk about Pedro Augusto, Maria Eugenia Morales, Raquel Perez Henriquez, Pedro Cabello Poleo and Anibal Gomez. This group of educators entrepreneurs, after persevering constancy, got in 98, became official through Presidential Decree N th 3034, dated on November 20 of that year, the creation of the University of Margarita, with the Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Humanities Education Law and Political Science.