Benguet State University
The Benguet State University (BSU or BengSU) is a state university in the province of Benguet, Philippines. Its main campus is in La Trinidad. History. It 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, eight colleges, two academic institutes, 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. 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.