Central Philippine University

Central Philippine University is a private research university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Established in 1905 through a grant given by the American business magnate, industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, it is the first Baptist founded and second American university in the Philippines and Asia . It initially consisted of two separate schools: the Jaro Industrial School for boys and the Baptist Missionary Training School that trains ministers and other Christian workers.In 1913, women began to be admitted to the school for boys, and in 1920 the school started offering high school education. The school for boys became a junior college and started offering college degrees in 1923 and changed its name to Central Philippine College. In 1936 the junior college became a senior college and two years after it in 1938, the Baptist Missionary Training School merged with the theology department of the college. In 1953, the college attained university status.Iloilo Mission Hospital, the university's hospital which was established in 1901 by the Presbyterian Americans, is the first American and Protestant founded hospital in the Philippines, predates the founding of CPU by four years.Central pioneered nursing education in the Philippines, when Presbyterian American missionaries established the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906. In the same year, the CPU Republic , the university's official student governing body, was organized, making it as the first established student governing body in South East Asia. Central was also the first institution to pioneer the work-study program in the country that were later patterned and followed by other institutions.The university maintains to be non-sectarian and independent but affiliated with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches and maintains fraternal ties with the International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches, known before as the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.CPU consists of eighteen schools and colleges that provides instruction in basic education all the way up to the post-graduate levels. In the undergraduate and graduate levels, its disciplines include accountancy, agriculture, arts and sciences, business, computer studies, education, engineering, hospitality management, law, mass communication, medical laboratory science, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, lifestyle and fitness, real estate management, rehabilitative science, tourism, and theology.The Commission on Higher Education has granted the University a full autonomous status, the same government agency that accredited some of its programs as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development , The Department of Science and Technology has designated the university's College of Engineering both as Department of Science and Technology School and Center for Civil Engineering Education for Western Visayas region. Central is a registered National Historical Landmark by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. The annual prestigious national Bombo Music Festival is hosted by the university and is held at the university's Rose Memorial Auditorium. Also, the university has been designated as a Regional Art Center by the Cultural Center of the Philippines .It has also been certified as one of the few ISO certified educational institutions in the Philippines by the International Organization for Standardization . The Board of International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches likewise on the other hand, has awarded Central a School of Excellence award. International collaborations with other institutions has made CPU to offer international undergraduate, graduate and doctorate extension programs in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese universities, especially through the overseas programs offered by the university jointly with the Thai Nguyen University and Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration both in Vietnam.
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