The University Vina del Mar (UVM) is a private corporation nonprofit created on November 21, 1988, whose founders were members of the Board of the Professional Institute of Vina del Mar. In March 1990, the UVM started academic activities teaching careers Architecture, Business Administration, Civil Engineering and Journalism. In 1991, the University welcomed the accreditation system established by the Organic Constitutional Law on Teaching (LOCE) that created the Higher Education Council. In 1997 he joined the board of the institution's Sociedad de Inversiones Norte Sur SA, considering their goals in building a new campus that would focus much of their academic activities of the University. Given the projections pole Rodelillo sector educational, cultural, social, business and technology development for the region, land acquisition in this sector was completed and was inaugurated on Campus Rodelillo the March 30, 2004.