Currently, research is a fundamental component of education at the university level; however, this activity in Colombia is still on development and faces various limitations stemming from the sociopolitical context in which the Colombian university appears, and more precisely in which UNIMINUTO VRBS is developed. These problems are installed both in the characteristics of the educational centers' organization and in the human resources available in each one of them. On that basis, this work seeks to contextualize university research in Colombia, placing special emphasis on the work carried out by UNIMINUTO VRBS between 2013 and 2017, allowing various considerations to arise regarding the formulation of projects and lines of research, as well as of the necessary implementation of academic policies that enable a better development of the investigative practice. The formulation of this research is based on two fundamental lines, first, the analysis of the different variables that point to the problem of university research in Colombia, in which there is a growing appreciation of the policies of science and technology that have been generated by state entities since 1994 thanks to the Colombian Government Conpes 2739, and second, with the staging of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, since the creation of Colciencias 30 years ago, which have lead several restructuring processes, generating different developments at country level and promoting dialogues on how the universities research activity should be organized. Those two lines are of vital importance and become valid before the negative diagnoses that the investigative practice has in Colombia, which appears in the fifth position of the QS ranking (World University Rankings 2014) in Latin America, with only 5 universities, preceded from lowest to highest by Chile (7), Mexico (7), Argentina (9) and Brazil (17).
