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Baguio Colleges was established in 1946 in Baguio City, Philippines to provide tertiary education after World War II. It initially offered teacher training and liberal arts courses to 156 students. In 1966, Baguio Colleges was converted to an educational foundation and began expanding its program offerings. Today, the University of the Cordilleras (UC) has over 18,000 students and offers programs from basic education to graduate studies across various fields. UC has received numerous recognitions for its quality education services, including ISO certification and Centers of Excellence designations from the Commission on Higher Education.

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1.2 Company Profile: Mission

Baguio Colleges was established in 1946 in Baguio City, Philippines to provide tertiary education after World War II. It initially offered teacher training and liberal arts courses to 156 students. In 1966, Baguio Colleges was converted to an educational foundation and began expanding its program offerings. Today, the University of the Cordilleras (UC) has over 18,000 students and offers programs from basic education to graduate studies across various fields. UC has received numerous recognitions for its quality education services, including ISO certification and Centers of Excellence designations from the Commission on Higher Education.

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Baguio Colleges, as the University of the Cordilleras was earlier known, pioneered in tertiary education in the
mountain highlands of the Cordillera region amidst devastation in and around Baguio City after the Second World
War.
Despite a pessimistic outlook and the bleak prospects pervading the climate of any undertaking at that time, Atty.
Benjamin R. Salvosa envisioned Baguio City as a university town. With such vision, he undauntedly pursued a noble
mission by founding a college.

It was on June 19, 1946, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, that a historic event unfolded.
Baguio Colleges was established initially offering courses in teacher training and liberal arts, with the first batch of
enrollees consisting of 156 students. Classes were first held in rented spaces at the Antipolo building, and later, at
the Lopez and Lamping buildings along Session Road, the city's main thoroughfare.
1966 became a turning point for Baguio Colleges as it was converted into an educational foundation. Since then, it
has blazed new trails and has become more responsive to the needs of the time.
The founder, Atty. Benjamin R. Salvosa sat as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and held the reins of the
presidency up to the early part of 1994.
Through the years, the University of the Cordilleras has grown bigger through the offering of additional courses and
increasing student enrollment. It continues to grow even better with time, as evidenced by exemplary performance in
various fields of discipline, with its graduates shining in national licensure examinations, and its alumni doing well in
private employment, in the practice of their trade and profession, and in public service.
Today, the University of the Cordilleras caters to more than 18,000 students coming from the Cordillera
Administrative Region (CAR), Regions I and II, neighboring provinces of Luzon. In addition, UC has the largest
population of international students among HEIs in Baguio City represented by 37 nationalities. Programs offered
now range from basic education to graduate studies, law, arts and sciences, business and accountancy, nursing,
teacher education, information technology and computer science, hospitality and tourism, and criminal justice.

UC has received recognitions which are testaments to its delivery of quality educational services. In 2019, UC's was
hailed ISO 9001:2015 Certified. The Commission on Higher Education has granted UC the Autonomous University
Status. The commission has likewise identified three (3) Centers of Excellence in UC namely Information Technology,
Criminology, and Teacher Education. The University's College of Law is rated among the top law schools in the
country, notably having graduated two (2) Bar Examination First Placers. Additionally, over 20 programs have been
accredited by private accrediting bodies.
The University of the Cordilleras is blessed to serve these mountain highlands.

Mission. UC’s mission to provide, thru the dynamic interaction of teacher and learners, of academe and the
community, wider opportunities for the attainment of a better quality of life for its constituents by emphasizing the
acquisition of functional knowledge and skills to make them productive members of society, by encouraging the
development of skilled professionals who will provide leadership in the various disciplines, and by the sustained
pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself discovering, processing, documenting, transmitting and disseminating
knowledge in all its forms and dimensions.

Vision. Into the next half century of service to the youth, we envision UC as a community of scholars more
aggressively involved in the pursuit and advancement of knowledge in all its dimensions, as an end in itself and as a
tool in personal, community and national development. UC shall help preserve and develop Filipino culture and
values, shall assist in rearing the Filipino youth to their fullest potentials by training them to think critically and
creatively, to act positively, to contribute to the development of a wholesome family, community and the larger
society.

University of the Cordilleras is a private School or educational institution. Educational services to the provision of
training and instruction on a wide range of subjects. It covers academic education ranging from elementary to college.
The Graduate School is the highest unit of the university. As such, its function is to encourage and facilitate the
training of teachers and students in the discovery of new knowledge and the analysis and re-evaluation of existing
knowledge. It leads the way for all the other units of the Foundation in the practice of scholarship shown by its full
publication and the use of the scientific method in inquiry as evidenced in its research work.
To these ends, the master’s and doctorate degrees offered by the Graduate School are designed primarily:
1. to give specialized training and preparation for research in the major field;
2. to develop effective leaders in the fields of education, government, business and industry and in line with the
national development goals;
3. to improve competence in teaching and in management, and
4. to develop the students’ potentials to the optimum by encouraging independent and critical thinking and
improving their communication skills.

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