Lourdes College

At Lourdes College of Cagayan de Oro City, we commit to provide integral and inclusive education to develop Ignatian Marian leaders who serve for the common good. We commit to comply with all applicable requirements faithfully and sustain quality management system through continual innovations of instructional and support processes, research, linkages, and community extension services to produce service-oriented individuals and world-class professionals.
Featured as in a wheel, the framework synthesizes what the school believes to be the essential elements in the formation of Ignatian spirituality among the Lourdes College Community members. The LC Ignatian Core Values Framework is Christ-centered, as shown by the symbol of Christ at the hub of the wheel. This center radiates the three Igncian Core Values of faith, excellence, and service, each of which is further expressed through the corresponding values occupying each spoke of the wheel. The arrows in the Core Values signify the dynamism and interrelatedness of all the values.
The Graduate Programs at Lourdes College aspire to develop students' spiritual and intellectual potential so that they model lifelong approaches to learning and service. The school emphasizes the education of the mind, heart, and spirit, thus developing the Profession of Presence. The profession of Presence implies the manifestation of competence and commitment in their personal and professional lives. The Graduate School aims to produce value-laden professionals who demonstrate expertise in their field, use research in making sound decisions, and respond to the diverse needs of the people they serve with their transforming Presence.
The Arts of Sciences Program aims of its graduates to be a competent, cultured, and integrated individual, imbued with Christian attitudes and values, and motivated to seek academic, personal, and professional excellence enabling him/her to take a stance to effect positive change. A Lourdesian Arts and Sciences student distinctly places a priority on the human potential's integrative development and cultivation. It also aims to find innovative ways to present methodological approaches in teaching and increase faculty and students' opportunities to share in their research and scholarship.
The Accountancy and Business Program's goal is to prepare values-centered professionals committed to an entrepreneurial spirit, ethical focus, and global orientation. The Program ensures that students acquire an essential understanding of fundamental accounting and business principles and theories. Entrepreneurial ideas are discussed and developed into business applications to understand that sound business and monetary plans will create successful businesses. The Program provides students opportunities to participate in business and accounting-oriented organizations to develop their leadership and management skills as future business leaders.
The Information Technology Program aims to provide a solid knowledge of the field and prepares students to take industry-standard certification exams for certifications from TESDA. It upholds the tradition of excellence embodied by Marian-Ignatian education. We emphasize the actual implementation of theories and the project-oriented and real-world environment, equipping its students to become tomorrow's leaders in the industry, academe, and government. The Bachelor of Information Technology is taught using a hands-on, reality-based approach to education, in which students apply what they learn in class to solve real-life problems.
The Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management program integrates theory and practice to provide you with a strong management and service orientation as well as a global perspective of hotel and restaurant operations. It nurtures your passion for food and its preparation. You will learn to work in a professional kitchen using the latest tools and equipment to prepare various ingredients while observing sanitation, safety, and hygiene.
The College of Nursing aims to prepare nurses who are scientifically informed, technically, socially aware, appreciative of one's culture, and deeply committed to carrying out their professional and individual responsibilities by Christian ideals by providing for The acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to function as self-directing persons and committed professional nurse practitioners. The individual's continued total development The development of the potential qualities for leadership, research, and teaching.
The Teacher Education program believes that success in the teaching profession depends partly on the prospective teacher's broad foundation of liberal education upon which to build her professional training. A general course of study provides this foundation in the freshmen year at the Freshmen Division. As early as the second year, the students are given opportunities to be aware of the realities of teaching through guided exposure activities and observation of school situations aligned with the foundation courses they are taking.
The Social Work Program seeks to develop n the students' skills and competencies essential for social work practice. These include the art of listening, creating professional helping relationships, research interpretation, inter-organizational liaison services, and casework. This course is designed to prepare students for adequate social services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and societies to enhance social functioning and quality of life.