In 10th of January 2000, in Oradea was founded Agora Foundation. Agora Foundation is a non profit, non governmental, non-political, independent organization, having a humanitarian and non-patrimonial purpose and it was enrolled into the Register of associations and foundations as a private juridical entity. Through the Decision taken by the General Committee of Founders, on 17th of March 2000, inside the Foundation was founded a private university and also the calendar of the activities that should have been followed in order to get the authorization for the institution and for the first programs of study.By the Decision of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, taken on 20th of December 2010, Agora University was accredited with the qualifier "trust", and the proposal was transmitted to The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports. The proposal was transmitted to the Romanian Parliament.After the approval of the two Chambers of the Romanian Parliament and of the Romanian president, in 3 April 2012 it was published in Romanian Official Gazette no. 222, 1st part, the Act 59/2012 regarding the establishment of Agora University of Oradea.