The original idea of founding a private institution of higher education was developed from the Mexican Bishops request the Archbishop of Yucatán, Dr. Manuel Castro Ruiz, working in higher education in the state and in the Southeast of Mexico.
Dr. Castro Ruiz made contact with a group of Yucatecan entrepreneurs to develop a profile of what would be the new University: would be governed by a Catholic religious congregation, form excellent professionals who were academically and morally, they impart races that covered labor needs in the Southeast region. Thus, Pope John Paul II blessed the first stone of the Mayab University February 7, 1983, starting operations on August 29, 1984.
