page_title: Central Philippine University
section_title: Undergraduate schools and colleges
hierarchical_section_title: Central Philippine University / Academics / Academic units / Tertiary education / Undergraduate schools and colleges
caption_attribution_description: English: Loreto D. Tupaz Hall houses the Central Philippine University College of Nursing, the first nursing school in the Philippines established by Joseph Andrew Hall in 1906 as Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses. The school for nurses operation was transferred later after the post World War II to Central Philippine University but maintains Iloilo Mission Hospital (formerly Union Mission Hospital) as its based hospital for clinical training of nurses.
context_page_description: The Central Philippine University is a private research university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Established in 1905 through a benevolent grant of the American 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 and the Bible School, both founded by the American missionary William Orison Valentine.
  In 1913, the Jaro Industrial School began admission of women and started offering high school education. It converted into a junior college in 1923 and in 1936, it became a senior college with the eventual merging of the Baptist Missionary Training School to the college's theology department, a separate theological school for women. In 1953, the college attained university status.
context_section_description: The university grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 30 academic majors and including minors, in nine undergraduate Colleges. Programs offered in the undergraduate level are Liberal Arts and Science, Hospitality Management, Tourism, Theology, Engineering, Business and Accountancy, Information Technology, Library and Information Science, Pharmacy, Medical Technology, Mass Communications, Public Administration and Political Science, Nursing, Teaching Education, Multimedia and Advertising, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
  The Agriculture, Engineering, Business and Accountancy and Teacher Education programs are CHED Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.
  Central ranks first among other universities in Western Visayas in Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) Centers of Development and Centers of Excellence List with six of the university programs designated by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) as Centers of Development and Excellence.  
  Recently, through international collaborations with other institutions in different countries has made CPU to offer like undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Accountancy programs especially at the Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration in Vietnam.
  The College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences – established by Bob Slocum, an American agriculturist. It is the first government recognized agricultural school outside Luzon. It offers undergraduate or Bachelor of Science  degrees in Agriculture, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Management. Accredited by PAASCU (Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities) as Level II and is also the first and only agricultural school designated by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) as Center of Excellence in Agriculture in Western Visayas region. The College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences has been also designated as CHED-NAFES provincial agricultural center for Iloilo and Panay.
  The College of Arts and Sciences – the liberal arts and sciences college of the university established in 1920s. It offers courses in Mathematics, Mass Communications, Biology, Micro-biology, Languages, Literature and Humanities. Some of its academic programs are designated by the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities Accrediting Agency Incorporated (ACSCU-AAI) as Level III and Level IV.
  The College of Business and Accountancy – established in the 1930s as one of the oldest American established business schools in the Philippines. Originally named as the College of Commerce, it was changed to its present name during the Presidency of Juanito M. Acanto. It offers baccalaureate degrees in Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Advertising, Business Administration (majors in Business Management, Financial Management (Banking and Finance), Marketing Management and Entrepreneurship) and Real Estate Management. The school is also Level IV in accreditation in some of its programs by the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities (ACSCU-AAI). The College of Business and Accountancy is the only business school in the Western Visayas region that has been designated by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) as Center of Excellence in Business Administration (the only Business school with Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) Center of excellence designation in the region). It is also the only business school with Level IV accredited (the highest level of accreditation for a program in the Philippines) programs in Panay.
  The College of Computer Studies –  established in early 2000, it is a CISCO Networking Academy and ORACLE Academic Initiative Partner computer college, it offers computing science baccalaureate programs in Computer Science, Digital Media and Interactive Arts, Information Technology and Library and Information Science.
  The College of Education – a Center of Development in Teacher Education designated by the Commission o
caption: Loreto D. Tupaz Hall of the College Nursing (the first nursing school in the Philippines established in 1906).
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