University of Sucre was created in response to this need in the region and is Sucreña and the October 1, 1977, the Governor of Sucre, Don Rafael Percy Breeding ground, advised by Association of Departments of the Atlantic Coast ( Sippur) presented to the Honorable Assembly of Sucre the preamble to the draft ordinance by which he requested the person were of an office of governor of the department the authority to create, organize, regulate and operate an Institute of Education superior would be called Technological University of Sucre . On 11 October 1977, 15 and November 18 of the same year regulatory debates took place. The November 24, 1977, the Governor of Sucre, Don Ramiro Vergara Towers, sanctioned the most important in the line of sucreña education legislation: The creation of the University of Sucre (Ordinance 01 of 1977), and powers conferred to the Governor to organize and regulate the functioning of the institution. On December 7, 1977 and by agreement with the National University of Colombia was appointed Victor Albis González as Rector and the academic and administrative organization began. On August 5, 1978, with the presence of the Director of ICFES and the Rectors of the Universities of Costa opened the University of Sucre and with it the start of academic work.