Universities

Cebu City currently has ten large universities each with a number of college branches throughout the city and more than a dozen other schools specializing in various courses.

Among these are:

University of San Carlos

The University of San Carlos (USC) is a private Catholic university in Cebu City which is administered and managed by the Society of the Divine Word since 1935. It offers a Montessori preparatory academy, Basic Education, 80 Undergraduate, and 85 Graduate programs, with a broad spectrum of academic disciplines through its 8 colleges and 27 departments. The premier university in Cebu and one of the top 10 leading universities in the country ranked by the International / World QS rating among the top 300 universities in Asia (only 2 universities in the Visayas are cited; USC in Cebu City and Silliman Univ. in Dumaguete City among world class universities in the Philippines).

University of San Jose Recoletos

The University of San Jose – Recoletos, formerly known as Colegio de San Jose – Recoletos was founded in Cebu by the Order of Augustinian Recollects in 1947. It has evolved from a small institution to being one of the best schools in the province. Presently, the University is chaired by Rev. Fr. Enrico Peter A. Silab, OAR.

It has three campuses – the main campus along Magallanes St., the Basak Campus at Cebu South Road, Basak, and the newly-built Balamban Campus at Arpili, Balamban. It also basic education, undergraduate and graduate courses.

Cebu Normal University

Cebu Normal University is one of the oldest educational institutions in the province. It was established as a provincial normal school in 1915, became an independent institution in 1924, a chartered college in 1976, and finally became a university in 1998. Currently the University President is Marcelo T. Lopez.

It has three campuses – the main campus in Osmeña Boulevard, and the other two campuses in Medellin and Balamban. It offers basic education and college courses.

 University of Cebu

University of Cebu was established in 1964 and is currently headed by Atty. Augusto W. Go. It has four campuses – Main Campus at Colon St., Banilad Campus, UC-METC Campus at Alumnos St., Mambaling and UC-LM(Lapu-Lapu/Mandaue) Campus near the Marcelo Fernan Bridge. They offer basic education and undergraduate studies.

University of the Visayas

 

University of the Visayas was founded by the late Don Vicente Gullas in 1919 and is now billed as the first university in Cebu. Their current University President is Atty. Eduardo Gullas, D.P.A. The University has eight campuses – the main campus at Colon St., the laboratory high school in Pardo, Gullas Medical Center in Banilad, and the other campuses in Punta Engaño, Lapulapu City, Mandaue, Toledo, Dalaguete, Minglanilla, and Compostela. It offers basic education and college courses.

Cebu Doctor's University

 

The Cebu Doctors' University (formerly Cebu Doctors' College) was granted university status on November 2004. It is the only school in the Philippines declared as a university without having basic education (pre-school - high school) curriculum and catering mainly to courses related to the health services field. It was relocated to a nine-storey main building at the Cebu Boardwalk in neighboring Mandaue City thus closing its old campus near the then Cebu Doctors' Hospital (now Cebu Docs' University Hospital).

Cebu Institute of Technology-University

The Cebu Institute of Technology – University (CIT University) (formerly known as Cebu Institute of Technology) in the Philippines is a private non-sectarian academic institution, providing basic and higher education with a strong foundation in general and technological education.

CIT is the first higher educational institution (HEI) in the Visayas and Mindanao classified as Category A (t). This places CIT as a mature teaching institution under the CHED-IQUAME framework. IQUAME is Institutional Quality Assurance Through Monitoring and Evaluation, a system of higher education quality assurance and classification.

CIT is one of only nine schools nationwide awarded by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as Center of Excellence in Information Technology Education.