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The Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation went through a period of managed growth built on the foundations already laid by the Founder-President, Dr. Manuel S. Enverga, within the capacity of the financial and human resources available to the institution. We relentlessly pursued our drive for academic excellence that has reaped the University recognition and inclusion in the elite category of the top higher education institutions today. We focused our resources on accreditation and ISO certification to maintain quality, efficiency, and effectiveness, even as we continued to update administrative systems and practices. We expanded our scholarship programs, allocated resources for faculty development, research, and community extension, and have made our resources, both human and financial, available for the uplift of distressed and marginalized communities. We have also established networks and linkages with alumni, industry, government, and non-government agencies to draw best practices and assistance for the University's improvement. We will continue our thrusts towards improving quality, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability. Today, the Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation offers various post-graduate programs in the liberal arts, education, physical education, business administration, public administration, and computer studies, and undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences, public administration, accountancy, business administration, law, education, engineering, criminology and law enforcement, architecture and fine arts, computer studies, maritime education and also technical courses. The various colleges and institutes have qualified, dedicated, and competent faculty members and academic administrators who make education in the University excellence-driven, relevant, and adaptable to new global needs. Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation is a private non-sectarian educational foundation with a three-fold function - instruction, research, and community service - offering responsive and alternative programs supporting national development goals and global excellence standards. Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation shall produce graduates with research-based knowledge, leadership, managerial skills, and professionalism. Manuel S. Enverga University is an excellent choice for those who choose higher education to enrich them and better their lives. When a student decides to enroll in the University, they become part of a learning community where extraordinarily selective and competitive programs at par with those of the Philippines' finest institutions are offered. A distinctive hallmark of Manuel S. Enverga University is excellence in the delivery of instruction, adaptability to the individual student's characteristics, learning styles and needs, and adherence to the truth for the development of creative, proactive, productive, and God-fearing individuals who will help in the transformation of Filipino society. Thus, at the heart of the different academic programs is student-centered learning. Teaching and training go beyond the classroom's confines and where students can comfortably progress as far as their abilities can take them. Enverga University promotes a caring learning environment among the community of teachers and scholars. The acquisition of knowledge and skills is attained through interaction with the world outside the academy, even as it encourages students to be proactive in their learning and growth. The University's emphasis informs the excellence-driven instruction on research activities where both students and faculty members are motivated to undertake laboratory or community research, special projects, and other academic requirements to produce new knowledge and new ways of thinking, doing, and seeing. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Manuel S. Enverga University was born from World War II's smoldering ruins. The debilitating aftermath of the war brought education to a halt. The economic dislocation that ensued left many young people of school age with little chance of getting an education. Parents from many parts of Quezon Province had to mortgage their lands or sell their last carabao to send their children to college in Manila. The situation presented both a challenge and an opportunity to a group of pioneering and vision-driven individuals led by Dr. Manuel S. Enverga, who founded the Luzonian Colleges on February 11, 1947, needy students access to higher education. The Securities and Exchange Commission granted Luzonian Colleges its charter on February 11, 1947. A little more than a month later, the Bureau of Private Schools issued a government permit for the school to open in April 1947. In the summer of 1947, 102 students, mostly youthful war veterans, enrolled in the two-year Associate in Arts program in the College of Liberal Arts, the first college to be established. The secretarial course opened on May 2, 1947, even as the young college obtained official permission to open the secondary school and the education programs in June 1947. Meanwhile, in 1948 heeding the clamor of the citizens of Sampaloc, Quezon, a high school was put up in that town. Barely two years after, the College of Law opened to serve the needs of Associate in Arts graduates who wanted to take up law at nighttime. The complete commerce program was given the authority to open on October 5, 1949. The year 1950 saw the opening of a satellite campus in Catanauan, Quezon. The Institute of Graduate Studies and Research and the College of Engineering opened in 1955, giving Luzonian students more varied career choices. The San Antonio, Quezon campus, was set up on June 22, 1959. In 1960, the school started to offer technical courses, and two years later, the College of Architecture became a fully independent academic program from the College of Engineering. View full university