Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales

The Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales (UCC) is a private university in Nicaragua with campuses in Managua, León and Matagalpa; Matagalpa, its second campus, opened in 2011. In 2022 Nicaragua's National Council for Evaluation and Accreditation (CNEA) granted UCC its certification of accreditation of minimum institutional quality standards.

• Business Administration and Tourism and Hotel Management
• Public Accounting and Finance
• Law with an emphasis on Business Management
• Marketing and Advertising, Graphic and Advertising Design, Business Communication and Public Relations
• Systems, Industrial, Civil, Computer and Telecommunications, and Agronomic Engineering
• Architecture and Interior Architecture
• Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics

Depending on the programme, classes are face-to-face or blended and run in daytime, Saturday or Sunday shifts, with the year organised in four-month terms (cuatrimestres). Listed durations range from four years to five years plus one term. UCC runs the UCC-VIRTUAL e-learning platform, set up in 2009, and in 2010 it founded a climate change research centre with support from the European Union. Applicants need a secondary school diploma (bachiller) and an identity document or birth certificate; foreign students must bring apostilled or authenticated documents, translated into Spanish where necessary.