AUC is a product of a memorandum handed to former President of Kenya, His Excellency Hon. Mwai Kibaki, on 18th September, 2007 by the then Busia Community. It began as the Alupe Campus of Moi University in 2008. Later on it was established through the Alupe University College Order 2015, Gazette Notice No 153 of 24th July 2015 as a Constituent College of Moi University after a wide range of intergovernmental and ministerial consultations.