Semester to semester the University Francisco de Paula Santander, reaffirms the institutional commitment to the process of continuous improvement in both missionary aspects of our university, as in all processes of academic support.Our Alma Mater propose new challenges from of achievements in many of them, like any process, the results are beginning to see gradually, the most important being the participation and commitment of the different members of the university community. " The University Francisco de Paula Santander was born as a private foundation on July 5, 1962, with the School of Economics. That same year on September 19, the provincial government gives legal status and joined the university schools of Surveying and drawing. Its aim is to raise the cultural level of the youth nortesantanderana, solve the problem of many graduates of the town for various reasons, particularly economic, can not continue studies in other cities of the country and strengthen ties of solidarity."