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Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) is a Catholic higher educational institution in Legazpi City, Albay. Known as the Dominican University of Bicol, AUL can trace her beginning on June 8, 1948, when Don Buenaventura de Erquiaga opened the portals of Legazpi Junior Colleges at a modest site with a two-story building on corner Rizal and Mabini Streets in the port district of Legazpi City. About two years later, the school had already expanded to the AUL downtown campus along Peñaranda and Gov. Forbes Streets, this time renamed Legazpi College. It offered elementary, secondary, vocational, tertiary, and graduate studies. AUL offers pre-elementary, elementary, and high school (General Curriculum, Special Program in the Arts, and PAASCU Level III-candidate Science High School), and twenty-three (23) programs (in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education College of Business Management and Accountancy College of Health Sciences and College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts), the newest of which are the UST-supervised BS Pharmacy and BS Medical Technology. The downtown campus hosts the College of Law, the Graduate School, and the Center for Continuing Education. The Aquinas University of Legazpi provides quality education and produces graduates with the human soul. The University is an institution modeled for higher learning. Its curricula are pattered to keep up with the extraordinary demands of the present and future generations. AQ encourages its students to develop critical thinking and excellence in the different fields of study. With its technologically advanced facilities, highly competent faculty, and staff, Aquinas University of Legazpi strives to meet the country's escalating needs by inculcating high-quality education and Christian values. University of Santo Thomas Legazpi is open to students with complete and valid credentials and whose qualifications indicate satisfactory performance. A student seeking admission to the UST-L undergraduate programs must take the UST- Legazpi College Admission Test (U-CAT) as scheduled by the Office of Guidance and Testing. Transferees are advised to see the University Registrar for evaluation purposes. The Center for Continuing Education (CCE) offers post-tertiary courses such as Pre-Bar Review and Certificate in Professional Teaching. The University is also accredited by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to accept international students. The University Academic Research under the Office of Academic Affairs gears toward the institution's strategic development in the context of a dynamically changing multi-layered cultural environment to promote the enhancement of Aquinian Culture, operationalization of Dominican empowerment, and deepening of the Dominican charism. It designs, implements, and processes research systems and procedures that bring out results that contribute to the University's various activities. This makes Aquinas University a proficient center of education. The Academic Research Program is guided basically by the vision that "Aquinas University is a reflective community striving for excellence and creativity in the service of God and humanity." It works toward developing the Filipino nation and the Bikol region by enriching both the Filipino and Bikol cultures, promoting human values, and advocating the social uplift of our people. The Program is guided by the research philosophy framed by the DOMNET Research Committee, to wit: "Research should involve the systematic and continuing search for truth based on reason illumined by faith and permeated with Christian values to increase human knowledge and contribute to the development of the human person in harmony with nature." Culture is a way of life. All efforts, actions, endeavors, fields, creations, programs, and thoughts of man define culture. As a matter of the case, these things make culture comprehensive and historical. It can be said that culture is the human spirit. There is a parallel significance between human culture and human nature. Given such connotation, we need to extrapolate on the different perspectives of culture. It can be argued that 1) Culture is a universal and objective consciousness of a particular collectivity 2) Culture is but progressive development of a collective consciousness 3) Culture is static yet dynamic 4) Culture is a series of reconstruction and deconstruction and 5) Culture is both influential and influenced. These views present culture as a totality. Culture is the "mind" (Grecian) that guides and the "spirit" (Romanticist) that moves people. It serves as a principle from which all human actions are directed and pointed towards a certain level of normativity (Kantian) to establish similarity and promote collectivity. Culture becomes a universal and objective consciousness. It is universal because it transcends particularity and elevates the sense of humanity. It is something from which we share and from which we proceed. It is objective because it becomes a fusion of horizons. There arises a common and creative sense of human identity. Regardless of the level of significance and degree of rightness culture brings to people, there is a certain point that culture, however good or evil it becomes, is the foundation of human life and defines man and his humanity. For more than 67 years of grateful passion and devotion to a life of truth and love out of gratitude, Aquinas University of Legazpi has helped the youth and the young professionals of Bicol realize their full potential to soar high and soar beyond. A conducive place for learning - this is how the Aquinas University of Legazpi is best described. Not only will you find competent professors but get the chance to enjoy its facilities both for learning and recreation. The University is continuously upgrading its facilities. Almost all systems and procedures are computerized, enabling Aquinas to offer high-quality education in a peaceful and secure atmosphere. The Aquinas University of Legazpi welcomes all international students in our Cultural Exchange Program. On this page, you can find all the pertinent information regarding our Exchange Program, including the requirements in availing of the said Program, accommodation, program cost, contents of the Program, study schemes, and a lot more. We hope that you will enjoy your stay at our University even if you are away from your home and your own family. The different offices and departments in AQ will help cater to the different needs of the colleges. This will provide the needed services to assist the colleges inefficiently performing all its responsibilities and tasks. View full university