Founded in 1976, the University of the Azores has established itself over the decades as a reference institution in the archipelago of the breast, managing to build scientific and cultural ties within and between islands. But also has established itself as a universalist institution, enhancing the relevance of its Atlantic nature gives him, a real bridge between Europe, the Americas and other regions of knowledge, confirming that, in it, the Scientia Lucet. From the fifteenth century to the Azores know relevant institutions for regional education. Besides the basics (reading, writing and arithmetic), provided by friars and priests, as early as the sixteenth century, the first two secondary schools on the islands, linked to the Jesuits. The three Jesuit colleges were the precursors of the three infrastructures that Azorean University would take centuries later, founding a College in Angra (in 1570), the other in Ponta Delgada (in 1621) and a third in Horta (in 1652).