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Tarlac State University is envisioned to be a premier University in the Asia Pacific Region. Tarlac State University commits to promote and sustain the offering of quality and relevant programs in higher and advanced education, ensuring equitable access to education for people empowerment, professional development, and global competitiveness. Tarlac State University is committed to continually striving for global competitiveness and excellence in delivering education, research, extension, training and consultancy services, hotel operation, and administrative support services, compliant to regulatory and statutory requirements for the utmost satisfaction of its valued customers. Through the QEHS Management System, TSU seeks to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for its employees while reducing its operations' environmental impact. Extension as an institutional function started sometime in 1974 under the stewardship of Jose Lacson under the name Extramural Studies and extension Services (ESES). Its main program component was Rural Life Development, hence the Institute of Rural Life Development (later renamed as Institute of Rural Life Technology (IRLT), which offered a four-year secondary agri-based program in 1975. Graduates of the program were encouraged to enter into a two-year vocational course, which was also agri-based, a response to the government's thrust of promoting agricultural development in the countryside under the directory of Prof. Rizal V.Ganiban.In 1983, the ESES was reestablished as a separate office directly under the Office of the College President with Professor Adoracion Y. Nagoya. It offered a non-formal education program that aimed to help out-of-school youth, continuing education, and special projects in enhancing the effectiveness of other sectors. The Office was also tasked to monitor income generating projects of the college. Believing that the extension is not only for the outside clients, projects like success lessons and evaluation for the faculty and staff were also initiated and cared for by the Office. The Alumni Affairs Office (AAO) was established in 1995 during the term of Dr. Rodolfo Y. Baking to ensure the smooth and proper coordination between the alumni and administration of the University. In 1998, when Dr. Dolores G.Matias became the University President, the AAO was transferred to the Office of the Vice President for Development and Public Affairs under the then Vice President, Dr. Noel H. Mallari. Shortly, this Office was renamed. The AAO was under the Office of the Vice President for Planning, Research, and Extension (VP-PRE), where all matters on external affairs of the University were facilitated. At present, the Alumni Affairs Office is a unit under the vice president's Office for Institutional Linkages and External Affairs. It is headed by its director Prof.Maria Teresa C. Agustin. The Office is mandated to serve as the link between alumni and the administration and strengthen the utmost support, participation, and commitment of Tarlac State University's various graduates. Being the premier center learning in the province of Tarlac, the beginning of the Tarlac State University (TSU) is synchronous with the beginning of public education in this heartland of Central Luzon and the whole Philippines. The first and dominant image of TSU among the people of Tarlac was it is a trade school, and its origin as such could be traced to as early as 1906 when the director of public instruction mandated the offering of intermediate grades and selected areas in the country to cater to industrial and vocational courses. In 1909, under the provincial government's auspices and the Provincial High School, this school began to in secondary students in its fold. By 1921, it had evolved into a full secondary school. In 1931, the trade school was annexed to Tarlac High School during the principalship of Russel Taylor – a status it maintained until the onset and the end of the Second World War. In 1946, immediately after the war, Tarlac Trade School was officially separated from the Tarlac High School, with the appointment of Manuel T. Espinosa as its principal. More than a decade later, in 1959, the Congress of the Philippines approved House Bill 1006, jointly sponsored by Congressmen Constancio Castaneda and Jose Roy, converting Tarlac Trade School into Tarlac School of Arts and Trades (TSAT) with Mr. Espinosa also becoming its first Superintendent. As a nationalized academic institution, TSAT began to Offer collegiate technical education courses in the province. In 1965, through the passage of Republic Act 4337, TSAT acquired its full-fledged status as a college, the Tarlac College of Technology (TCT). Among other provisions, the law called for the merging of TSAT with Tarlac National Agricultural School in Camiling, Tarlac. Dr. Mario Manese was appointed as its first president (1965-1972), who introduced teacher education and engineering courses. Prof. Jack Smith replaced Dr. Manese in 1972 as TCT President. His early tenure when Presidential Decree 609 was mandated in 1974, which instructed the separation of TCT from its agricultural component, which became the present Tarlac College of Agriculture in Camiling. Smith's lengthy stay in TCT saw its expansion as a state college, particularly with the acquisition of a 10-hectare lot in Barrios Ingot and Maliwalo that came to be known as Lucinda Campus, which eventually became the site of the Laboratory School and various agro-industrial projects of the institution. About 7 kilometers from the main campus, this campus was donated by the family of Serafin G. David on August 29, 1973, and named after the family matriarch Lucinda David. In 1976, the TCT organized the Graduate School with academic programs leading to a Master of Arts in Education degrees, with majors in Guidance in Counseling and Educational Management. In 1978, the TCT set-up degree programs in Master of Public Administration, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and the revised two-year Trade Technical Education. In 1983, the Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Elementary Education. Dr. Ernesto Cosme was designated Officer-in-Charge in September 1984, eventually becoming TCT's third and last president. During his administration, R.A. 6764was signed into law by then-President Corazon C. Aquino on October 13, 1989, converting TCT into Tarlac State University (TSU) as its acting president. The conversion was made possible through Tarlac's three congressional district congressmen's sponsorship, namely, Jose Cojuangco Jr., Jose Yap, and Hermie Aquino. Dr. Cosmes's stay in both the TCT and TSU saw the further expansion of the physical structure and academic programs. Modern buildings rose on the 1.2 hectares Main Campus and the 10 hectare Lucinda Campus. Additional programs were opened, such as Doctor of Education Management in Consortium with the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP), Bachelor in Secondary Education, Bachelor of Science and Accountancy, Business Administration major in Entrepreneurship, Chemistry, and Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences. View full university

The carabao has always been the symbol of the Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU). The carabao is resilient even through the ages, synonymous with actions and sustained accomplishments - that is, TAU through the years. It is always good to go back to memory lane and learn how the University has weathered storms before reaching its present status. In an environment of academic excellence, TAU harnesses, develops, and catalyzes the conversion of students' full potentials and capabilities into becoming responsible and competent professionals in agriculture and allied disciplines.TAU shall primarily provide advanced education, higher technological, professional instruction and training in agriculture, agribusiness management, science and technology, engineering, teacher education, non-traditional courses, and other relevant fields of study. It shall also undertake research, extension services, and production activities to support the development of the Province of Tarlac and provide leadership in its areas of specialization. The Institution was established in 1944 as Camiling Boys/Girls High School. It started with 368 students, 13 faculty members, and a school principal. It stopped operation in December 1944 but resumed after the Liberation as Tarlac High School, Camiling Branch. The school's reopening was a response to the clamor of parents whose children stopped schooling during the war years and the difficulty of traveling from Camiling to Tarlac City. On July 6, 1945, Municipal Resolution No. 34 created the Camiling Vocational Agricultural School (CVAS), replacing Tarlac High School, Camiling Branch. Its focus on vocational agriculture was considered a means to hasten the town's economic recovery from the ravages of the war. CVAS had 534 students and 13 faculty. From 1945 to 1948, the school offered two curricula – the general academic to enable the former students to graduate and the agriculture curriculum for the first year and second-year students. On September 26, 1946, the school was renamed Camiling Rural High School (CRHS). In 1948, the general curriculum was phased out. Early in 1952, the Director of Public Schools noticed that the school should be relocated to a permanent site and increase declining enrollment; otherwise, it might be closed or transferred to another town. The most conducive agricultural school's expansion was found in Malacampa, a barangay seven kilometers away from the town. In June 1953, the school with 155 students and eight faculty moved to the new site. Classrooms and offices were made of bamboos and nipa in the "middle of a wilderness." Funds from FOA-PHILCUSA later came, and permanent buildings replaced the bamboo structures. Expansion and development had been accelerated when CRHS was converted to Tarlac National Agricultural School (TNAS) in 1957, under a Superintendent. It became a policy to make all projects profitable – piggery, poultry, goat, and vegetables. Linkage for research started from pork barrel funds. In 1961, the two-year technical agriculture post-secondary course was opened, and in 1963, the Health Center was built out of funds from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). By that time, TNAS already had a school hymn and a student publication, "The Carabao." On January 14, 2010, Dr. Max P. Guillermo assumed the presidency of the Institution. He pursued a new strategic planning initiative: TCA @ 2015 that outlined the formulated institutional plans, based on strategic programmatic strengths supported by a comprehensive development plan to make the then TCA an energized incubator of new ideas and center of innovation. Significant milestones in realizing the vision to be a recognized higher education institution in the Southeast Asian Region are broadly demonstrated during Dr. Guillermo's second term. His term is characterized by more aggressive and more vigorous actions, all directed toward its persistent pursuit of quality and excellence. Intensified mechanisms in realizing the Institution's quest for quality assurance are the landmark accomplishments of Dr. Guillermo's administration. It is under his administration that the Institution had been awarded an institutional accreditation status making a record as the first AACCUP Institutionally Accredited State College in the Philippines, the second SUC granted institutional accreditation by AACCUP under the outcomes-based quality assurance (OBQA) paradigm, and the fourth SUC awarded institutional accreditation status by AACCUP. As it strives to achieve the highest levels of excellence in delivering higher education, TAU has also undergone Institutional Sustainability Assessment (based on CMO No. 46, s. 2012) conducted by CHED. On January 1, 2016, the Agriculture Education of the College of Agriculture and Forestry was designated by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as the Center of Development (COD). In contrast, the College of Education's Teacher Education programs were certified by CHED as the Center of Excellence (COE) effective April 1, 2016. Furthermore, all the 23 program offerings of the University are already accredited, most of which are submitted for higher accreditation status. Due to the drift in the internationalization of higher education, the University has also intensified and strengthened its global partnerships, linkages, and collaborations to expand its network, broaden its prospects, and strengthen resource generation initiatives. These collaborations and partnerships paved the way for faculty exchange and numerous research paper presentations and opportunities for sending OJT students abroad. All of these also ushered diversified avenues for international (cross-border) mobility of students. An evident change in TAU's environment is also observed with the massive infrastructure projects designed to cater to its stakeholders' ever-changing needs. The rise of new structures and rehabilitation of existing buildings that house well-ventilated and spacious classrooms and well-equipped laboratories has been a priority of the University administration. On May 10, 2016, a significant historical leap for the TCA had been taken as it was officially converted into TAU by Republic Act No. 10800, "An Act Converting the Tarlac College of Agriculture in the Municipality of Camiling, Province of Tarlac into a State University to be known as the Tarlac Agricultural University," signed by His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III.TAU is mandated by law to provide advanced education, higher technological, professional instruction and training in agriculture, agribusiness management, science and technology, engineering, teacher education, non-traditional courses, and other relevant fields of study. It shall also undertake research, extension services, and production activities to support the development of the Province of Tarlac and provide progressive leadership in its areas of specialization. The change in status and shift in perspective pose immense challenges to TAU. A practical, in-depth, well-planned, and well-executed strategic development plan must sustain quality, competence, and competitiveness in agricultural education and allied courses. The TAU Strategic Development Plan (2016 to 2025) has been crafted through the stakeholders' combined wisdom and vision for TAU. It serves as the blueprint of the ten-year strategic directions carefully laid out to realize the University's breakthrough goals. The advent of ASEAN integration and the drift in internationalization, alongside its mandate, compel TAU to craft development-oriented functions and outcomes-based education to meet global demands and standards. These include the processes and strategies of integrating international, intercultural, and global dimensions into the goals, functions, and delivery of higher education. With all these changes and challenges, TAU still believes that a relevant and quality education is indispensable in shaping the country and the world holistically. View full university