Benguet State University (BSU) is a state university in the province of Benguet, Philippines. Its main campus is in La Trinidad.

History

BSU started as the La Trinidad Farm School, which was elevated to Trinidad Agricultural School (TAS) in 1920. The school reopened after World War II and became the La Trinidad Agricultural High School. Four months later, it was nationalized and renamed as the Mountain National Agricultural School (MNAS). It was soon converted into the Mountain National College (MNAC), Mountain Agricultural College (MAC), and Mountain State Agricultural College (MSAC) in 1969 through Republic Act 5923. On January 12, 1986, the school was converted into a chartered state university by virtue of Presidential Decree 2010. As of May 2018, Benguet State University is recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a Center of Excellence (COE) for Teacher education, and Center of Development (COD) for both Agriculture education, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Academics

BSU has two satellite campuses, 15 colleges and a graduate school. It also runs an open university. These units offer graduate and undergraduate degree programs in agriculture, forestry, teacher's education, nursing, physical sciences and the arts. Some units offer non-degree programs and short courses.

Colleges and Institutions

College of Agriculture College of Arts and Humanities College of Criminal Justice Education College of Engineering College of Forestry College of Home Economics and Technology College of Human Kinetics College of Information Sciences College of Medicine (SOON TO OPEN) College of Natural Sciences College of Numeracy and Applied Science College of Nursing College of Public Administration and Governance College of Social Sciences College of Teacher Education College of Veterinary Medicine Open University Masteral Degree Programs (Open University) POST-BACCALAUREATE

Campuses

Elementary and secondary schools

Besides having college campuses, the school had also elementary and secondary campuses called Elementary Laboratory School (ELS) and the secondary as the Secondary Laboratory School (SLS). The ELS campus is located at Km. 5, La Trinidad while the SLS campus is in the Outpost, La Trinidad.

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