The National University of Río Cuarto, is a public entity, an academic institution, a working community that integrates the national system of public education at the higher level, and which states that education is an unspoken social law to ensure full citizenship in the context of a social democracy.
It was created on May 1, 1971 by decree of the Executive in a program of matching the Argentina university education to the needs of development and in response to a strong local and regional social movement He allowed the greatest cultural conquest of the region. Its creation was an important milestone in the participation of all social sectors of the local and regional community with tenacious effort. It represents a typical example of community management because it was an achievement of men and institutions mobilized to clear and large collective maturity goals, a fact that has been the hallmark of its genesis.