University of the Cordilleras

Address	Gov. Pack Road, Baguio City, 2600
Phone	(6374) 442 3316
Fax	6374) 442 6268
Website	http://www.uc-bcf.edu.ph
Email	[javascript protected email address]

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The Baguio Colleges opened its doors to 156 students on June 19,1946 just after the World War II. Its birth marked the beginning of Baguio City's reputation as the Educational Center of the North. Appropriately, Baguio Colleges Founder Benjamin Romero Salvosa had been acknowledged as the Father of Higher Education in Northern Luzon. Baguio Colleges started with teacher training and liberal arts courses in its early years at the Antipolo Building along Session Road - a building that still stands today. Steadily from there, the school expanded its curriculum to include courses in Law, Engineering and Commerce, while its classrooms and offices spilled out in the adjacent Lopez Building. By 1950, it opened a Graduate School with an impeccable standard that remains widely esteemed to this day. In the same year, Baguio Colleges acquired its Campo Filipino campus, enabling it to complete its involvement in formal education to include the elementary and high school levels. In 1967, to perpetuate its institutional commitment, Baguio Colleges reincorporated to become the Baguio Colleges Foundation. It then moved to its present location at the fork of Harrison and Governor Pack Roads. It has become one of the most recognizable permanent landmarks of Baguio City. Today, the seven-storey building complex is the academic home of about 10,000 students form different parts of the archipelago enrolled in 33 courses - including a course in the leading-edge technology: computers. It has a faculty of 286 members. The BCF was granted University status by the Commission on Higher Education on November 22,2003 and was renamed the University of the Cordilleras (UC).

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