 In 1983 , the Department of Administration branched out of the Faculty of Engineering and constituted the actual Faculty of Administration Sciences . In 1985 , the Professorial Statute Committee was created to determine the procedures related to the professorial career . The same year , the first agreements for the development of joint research projects were signed with the Ministry of National Education , COLCIENCIAS , the UNESCO , and the OAS , among others . This agreements are the cornerstone for the development in the 1990s of the Doctoral degrees offered by the university . Also , in the 1980s , and thanks to the establishment of a revenue stamp by the Congress of the Republic , the University began the establishment of its satellite campuses . At first , the courses presented in this campuses were only foundation courses , which required to the students its finalization in the main campus to obtain their degrees , until 1995 , when all the satellite campuses allowed the finalization of the program . 
