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Baguio Central University was founded in 1945 as the Centro Academy by the Fernandez family. [188] The following year, another educational institution, the University of the Cordilleras was established as the Baguio Colleges before becoming the Baguio Colleges Foundation; it became a full-fledged university in 2003. [189]
The Baguio Technical and Commercial Institute, also known as Baguio Tech, was founded on August 8, 1948 [1] by Fernando Bautista and his wife Rosa Bautista. It first offered tertiary programs in 1950. It received university status in 1969 and was named University of Baguio. [2]
It was established in 1921 through the initiative of UP alumni in Baguio and Benguet and was inaugurated as the University of the Philippines College Baguio on April 22, 1961. [5] It was eventually elevated to its present autonomous status as a constituent university on December 2, 2002.
During the Second World War, the cathedral served as an evacuation center, and was the only building in Baguio that withstood the carpet-bombing of the city by American forces during liberation on March 15, 1945. Former Baguio mayor Virginia de Guia, recalled that refugees "packed the church like sardines when the airplanes came". [2]
Saint Louis University was founded on December 1, 1911, by Rev. Fr. Seraphin Devesse, CICM for 10 local boys in the City of Baguio. Along with his relocated St. Patrick Church, he founded a one-room elementary school in Baguio at what is now Cathedral Hill for ten local boys, naming it the Saint Louis School.
The University of the Cordilleras (UC or UC-BCF; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Kordilyeras), formerly known as the Baguio Colleges Foundation (BCF), is a private coeducational university in Baguio, Philippines. Founded by Benjamin R. Salvosa and his wife Evangelina D. Salvosa in 1946, it offers programs at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate ...
The Katipunan, a nationalist secret society, was founded on July 7, 1892, ... Baguio, and the United States for tertiary and higher education.
Gates of the Mansion House in Baguio. The markers are in Ilocano, Filipino, and English. This list of historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is an annotated list of people, places, or events in the region that have been commemorated by cast-iron plaques issued by the said commission.