MCC to offer graduate school program

CEBU, Philippines - The Mandaue City College under the administration of Dr. Susana Cabahug is set to offer graduate school program soon.

Cabahug in an interview with reporters said that she has Dr. Bonifacio Villanueva, the Prersident of the Cebu Technological University asking for a consortium with the school for MCC to offer graduate education.

Cabahug said since there is a standing memorandum order from the Commission on Higher Education No. 36-1998 on graduate education policy and standards that no school could offer graduate education if it has not been accredited level 3 in at least three of its baccalaureate programs which is quality education higher than the basic requirements of CHED, it cannot operate its own graduate program unless it has a consortium with another school which is accredited level 3.

Cabahug said she has chosen CTU as both schools have similar curricular programs.

She said Dr. Villanueva said the plan is a good move but he still has to present it to the Board of Regents of CTU before he could finally decide on it.

Once it receives an authority from the CTU board, MCC could start accepting enrollees for masteral degrees in the second semester or most likely in the first semester next year.

Cabahug said MCC has lots of doctors in education who could teach masteral and doctoral degrees.

She said that she was prompted to decide to offer graduate school as there are many teachers in the city who asked her to offer masteral degree so that they could be promoted the same thing with the cityhall employees who wanted to acquire masters degree programs for them to be promoted. 

While she plans for the opening of the graduates school courses, but Cabahug said that MCC cannot offer Nursing courses considering that one of its basic requirement is a tertiary hospital composed with 100 beds.

She said that so far the Mandaue City hospital only has a 60 bed capacity while the Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu city will no longer accept hospital duties, she said that MCC will just wait for the time that the city hospital will become a tertiary hospital before they operate such courses.

At present MCC is only offering Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Secondary Education and Diploma in Professional Education while the rest are already non board courses.