Mt. Province gets first university

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – The state-run college in Mountain Province is now a university following the signing of a bill seeking its conversion, the Philippine Information Agency said.

Last May 24, President Aquino signed into law Republic Act 10583 converting the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC) into the Mountain Province State University (MPSU), the first of its kind in the northern Cordillera province.

The RA 10583 provides that the new university will have its main campus at the province’s capital town of Bontoc.

Other government-run schools in the province are now integrated as the university’s branches such as the Eastern Bontoc National Agricultural School in Barlig town, which will become MPSU’s College of Forestry; the Bacarri Agricultural High School in Paracelis town, as College of Agriculture, and the Tadian School of Arts and Trades in Tadian town, as College of Engineering.

The university is mandated to provide advanced education, higher technological and professional instruction and training in forestry and agriculture, teacher education, engineering and technology. 

MPSPC’s conversion into a university was endorsed by the Commission on Higher Education-Cordillera in 2009 following rigid assessment on its compliance relating to its conversion.