University of the Philippines Visayas

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At present, UPV, located strategically in three campuses in Regions 6 and 8, continues to be at the forefront of higher education, pioneering academic programs relevant to local and national development.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) provides the general education program that is the foundation of all university academic programs. The College equips the students with basic knowledge in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the skills necessary to communicate and analyze and integrate knowledge, and learn independently and think critically. It offers interdisciplinary programs with significant double support or complementary to those offered by other colleges.
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) of the University of the Philippines Visayas is at the forefront of fisheries education. Over the years, the College has instituted degree programs that address the need for sustainable development of the country's fisheries resources and respond to the call for a highly trained workforce in the field. Its curricular offerings, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels, aim to impart theoretical knowledge and practical skills and develop analytical capabilities as tools toward innovative approaches and solutions to fisheries and related problems.
During the term of UP President Onofre D. Corpus in 1975, an interdisciplinary team within the University conceived an autonomous unit that would become the country's premier institution for fisheries and marine science education and research. Its establishment was embodied in the Philippine Five-Year Development Plan of 1978-1982, which also provided that Region VI would be the new unit's site.
On May 31, 1979, the Board of Regents (BOR), during its 114th meeting, approved the establishment of an autonomous University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV). Executive Order No. 628 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos on October 30, 1980, operationalized UPV, with its main campus in Miagao, and with the College of Fisheries as its flagship college.
Originally, UPV consisted of only two colleges, the College of Fisheries (CF) and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), formerly UP College Iloilo. It had five colleges and a school on four campuses Miagao, Iloilo City, Cebu City, and Tacloban City. The other colleges and schools are the College of Management (CM), formerly the School of Development Management (SDM), UP Cebu College, UP Tacloban College, and the School of Technology and Environmental Resources or STER (now, the School of Technology or SciTech). The Board of Regents established the Graduate School in 1984. It was phased out in 1991 and became the Graduate Program Coordinating Office (GPCO). It was renamed Graduate Program Office in 1995. Its primary function is to monitor and standardize the graduate program offerings of the colleges and schools of UPV.
The main campus of UPV is in the 278-year-old municipality of Miagao, located about 41 kilometers from Iloilo City. It is built on a 1.294-hectare area of rolling hills and lush greenery with a spectacular view of the sea on one side of the campus and the distant mountains on the other. It covers 12 barangays and is one of the biggest in the country today.
The development of the site and construction of facilities in the Miagao campus began in September 1981, which was made possible through the Sixth Educational Loan of the Philippine Government approved by the World Bank. The loan proceeds of about $17.63 million were used for site acquisition, construction of buildings, procurement of equipment, and the transfer of the CF personnel and properties from Diliman to Miagao. Today, a two-lane concrete road on the campus connects the vast expanse of fields, beaches, and forest hills with modern laboratory complexes, lecture, and audiovisual halls, administration offices, the library museum, infirmary, student dormitories, faculty and staff houses, and apartments, all providing a fascinating contrast to the rural setting.
The transfer of CF to the Miagao campus in 1988 was spearheaded by Chancellor Rogelio Juliano and Dean Efren Ed C. Flores. In June 1990, Chancellor Francisco Nemenzo implemented the CAS Division of Humanities and Division of Social Sciences transfer. The School of Technology followed soon after. The existing CF library collection was transferred to the Library Museum and enriched with titles in the Liberal Arts. In May 1993, the transfer of the Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics and the Division of Biological Sciences, along with the Office of the Dean, completed the transfer of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Two degree-granting units remain in the Iloilo City Campus. They are the College of Management and College of Arts and Sciences' Division of Professional Education, which maintains the UP High School in Iloilo. The UPHSI is an experimental laboratory for innovative teaching strategies designed to provide academic training for underprivileged students to better prepare them for access to tertiary education at the University of the Philippines.
With the creation of UPV, the regional campuses of UP Cebu College and UP Tacloban College were integrated into the UPV administration in 1986 and were renamed UPV Cebu College and UPV Tacloban College.
On September 24, 2010, the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines declared the University of the Philippines Cebu College as an autonomous unit under the Office of the President of the University effective January 2011. The said elevation will allow the unit greater freedom in pursuing the directions set and patterned on the needs of Cebuanos and the students from its immediate vicinities.

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