Start your journey at Saint Michael's College of Laguna, a private premier non-sectarian higher education institution in the Metro South. SMCL exists to educate and empower young people like you to make a difference in society. Our faculty and staff understand that learners need to be enabled, assisted, and empowered. The academic and co-curricular offerings at Saint Michael's will help you shape your preferred future. As you enter SMCL, you will gain relevant experiences that are useful for life.
We believe every student can learn and succeed. His or her potentials can be maximized in a nurturing, supportive environment that sets high expectations and provides the needed reinforcement and enrichment to make this happen.
We recognize that authentic learning is dependent on the learner's self-motivation, inner sense of direction. Independent study skills to pursue life-long learning, initially for its own sake, and ultimately for the following benefits thereof, not only for himself or herself but, more importantly, for the glocal (global and local) community of which he or she is an integral part. Knowing that authentic learning does not happen by chance, we conscientiously provide each learner with intellectual challenges and learning opportunities.
Saint Michael's College of Laguna is inspired by a genuine desire to serve humanity, achieving a reasonable level of well-being for man by making him free from hunger and thirst. By so doing, man liberated from his material needs is to use this very freedom to unfold to the fullest his abilities and eventually to share the fruits of his endeavor with the whole of humanity.
Thus, Saint Michael's College of Laguna provides a learning environment that will bring forth to the world individuals who will embody the Michaelean ideal of service, moral uprightness, commitment to excellence, and love for humanity.
Saint Michael's College of Laguna, a private premier non-sectarian institution of learning and scholarship, envisions the development of service-oriented, moral and ethical professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, committed to excellence and imbued with love for humanity and intercultural sensitivity. Saint Michael's College of Laguna is committed to continual improvement and compliance of statutory and regulatory requirements in providing quality and relevant education to develop professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders imbued with service values, moral uprightness, commitment to excellence, and love for humanity. As the years unraveled the College's potential to bring out the best in the students that came under its care, Biñan College has renamed Saint Michael's College of Laguna in 1983, reaffirming its serious and focused position in performing its mandate and corporate social responsibility. In the same year, the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and a Bachelor of Science in Education were offered. Enrolment escalated at dramatic levels, especially with the closure of two private high schools in the area. This enabled the College to expand its reach and to touch more lives.
Milagros Limaco assumed the Presidency in 1986. In the years that followed (1990-1994), degree programs in Accountancy, Hospitality Management, and Computer Science, an associate degree in Computer Secretarial, and a graduate school were opened.
Amidst these improvements, after twenty-one years of committed service, failing health forced Milagros Limaco to retire in 1997. Her older sister, Rosa Limaco-Cruz, once again assumed the Presidency, with the assistance of a niece, Lourdes Almeda-Sese, Ed.D. as Executive Vice-President. During this time, the College took a dramatic transformation not only in the campus' physical infrastructure but also in service delivery. The tandem leadership's performance was marked by the construction of the Learning Resource Center in 1996 and the conversion of a large covered court into an airconditioned, multi-purpose hall.
Other developments included the initial offering of human resources management and information services as majors under the Business Administration program (AY 1998-1999), the launching of the College community extension program, Lingkod at Pagmamahal ng SMCL (LINGAP-SMCL), and the forging of an academic exchange program with Namhae College of Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (1999), with the first term of the program commencing in 2000.
In 2004, Lourdes Almeda-Sese became the third College President after the retirement of Rosa Limaco-Cruz. Across the two generations, keeping the faith in maintaining a tradition of quality and excellence has been the leadership's living advocacy.
SMCL's success can be attributed to its academic strength, which has served as a source of pride not only in the SMCL community but also in the region. The Institution maintains competitive faculty members plus a curriculum that adheres and reflects the current trends and changes in the different programs. These are complemented by the Institution's modern facilities and technology that address the needs of each program.
With its high scholastic standards, SMCL's academic excellence has been acknowledged in the academic community. One of the country's central accrediting bodies, the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA), awarded SMCL with a Level III Reaccredited Status Liberal Arts, Business Administration, and Education programs.
Likewise, the Nursing, Grade School, and High School programs received Level II Reaccredited Status and the Hospitality Management Program, Level I Accredited Status. The Computer Science program was granted Candidate Status.
The PACUCOA gave the College the Gold Award for 100% of its programs accredited in 2015. It was also awarded Deregulated Status by the Commission on Higher Education in 2003 and has retained its status in 2009. In 2016, CHED granted SMCL Autonomous Status useful for three years.
SMCL has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification by TUV Rheinland effective 24 April 2014 until 23 April 2017, proving its commitment to be globally comparable and competitive in its operations.
Undoubtedly, Saint Michael's College of Laguna will continue to mold minds, touch hearts, and transform lives. It will send forth to the world graduates imbued with service values, moral uprightness, commitment to excellence, and love for humanity and intercultural sensitivity. It earnestly hopes that these Michaeleans will aspire to share the fruits of their endeavors with their communities, with the country and the world. If they do and SMCL is confident they will, in their ways, then the Institution can unequivocally declare with pride that it has been able to achieve what it had set out to do when it was founded.
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