Created by Decree No. 89-138 of the 1^st  of August  1989, modified and completed  by  the Executive Decree No. 95-205 of August 5^th  1995, then amended by Executive Decree No. 98-391 of December 2^nd  1998, the University of Belkaïd Abou Bekr Tlemcen results from of a long evolution.

At the beginning, higher education stared at a university center that included at the origin (1974-1980) the only core curriculum of Exact Sciences and Biology.

This teaching has gradually extended to new sectors, covering every year, a series of training courses and giving students the opportunity to pursue their entire graduation courses in Tlemcen. In addition to the establishment, often in difficult conditions, of pedagogical tasks, the former University Centre can count to its credit the first promotions graduated in Social and Human Sciences and in language.