Background:

from its beginnings, the Cuban Revolution stimulated academic excellence in its universities, which constituted uniformity in the speech and actions of officials of the Ministry of Higher Education.

Objective:

analyze the involvement of the Cuban Revolution in the search for academic excellence and its derivation towards university accreditation and reaccreditation processes.

Methods:

a qualitative investigation was carried out at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences , in September 2023. Theoretical methods were used: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis and generalization; Empirical ones: documentary analysis and interviews with key informants.

Results:

several interventions by officials of the Ministry of Higher Education were analyzed that were shaping and establishing a policy linked to the search for university academic excellence in Cuba, which, together with criteria from Latin American scholars, were granting a transition towards evaluation processes stipulated by the National Accreditation Board, in which university quality is strengthened through the accreditation and reaccreditation of its institutions. Key informants confirmed the validity of these processes, in the context of the Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences.

Conclusions:

the concepts of university and quality have been modified throughout Cuban revolutionary life; expressed in the constant link with society, the humanist values of the people and their tradition of struggle. The university must be immersed in an environment of search for its relevance and quality; hence its importance of getting involved in evaluation and reevaluation processes by the National Accreditation Board.

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