The Continental University was founded in 1964 by Mrs. Christy A. Anne, an American residing in Kiribati Liberia. It was started as a non-formal institution by teaching at the village and then the idea was hatched and she gathered a group of village folks to give them a little education. This was the start of the Distance Education Program of Continental University and moved to Manila due to civil war in 1995.

The Continental University started to merge with Sta. Rosa College of Business and Computer in the Philippines in 1996 and the Corporation of Continental University. In the past few years the Continental University Centre as know as Continental University was established in 2001 and it was end merging to the Sta. Rosa College of Business and Computer in the Philippines in 2005 and it became the Srcbc-Continental University Centre with the corporation name until the present.

The Continental University (Corporation: Continental University Centre) has entered Memorandum of Agreement with Eulogio ¡°Amang¡± Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST) which is an autonomous state college dully established by law and operates on its own charter and RA 8292, otherwise known as the Higher Education Modernization Act of 1996 as well as the EARIST can offer Undergraduate courses, Master's courses and Doctorate courses that approved by the board of trustees without seeking permission from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) because it provides that these courses is comply with the policies and standards of CHED in 2001, and then it was re-entered in 2007. Thus, the S-CUC is qualified to offer Undergraduate Courses, Master¡¯s Courses and Doctorate Courses through non-traditional education program in trimester basis by virtue of and in accordance with the MOA.