University of Mindanao

The University of Mindanao is the better private, non-sectarian university in Mindanao amid in Davao City on the Southern Philippine island. Established in 1946, the University of Mindanao has ten branches advance over thirteen campuses in Southern Mindanao. It is currently an Autonomous Status per CEB Resolution No. 076-2009 with Category A (t) per CMO No. s. 2009 continuing accepted by Commission on Higher Apprenticeship (CHED). Its Business Administration, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering programs were Centers of Development(COD) and its Teacher Apprenticeship affairs was advised as a Center of Excellence(COE) by CHED. It is the better clandestine university in Mindanao and hailed as the academy with the additional accomplished amount of programs accepted by PACUCOA in the country today.

In the bosom of rebuilding the charcoal of Apple War II, Atty. Guillermo E. Torres complete the academy that would board the apprenticeship for socially, morally, economically knowledgeable, advantageous and amenable citizenry of the country. His constant acceptance and activity pushed him to argue his accompany in Manila and new acquaintances to accomplish this vision.

The ability of the dream apparent history if the Mindanao Colleges was congenital on July 27, 1946. During the aboriginal year of operation, classes were captivated in four busy apartment of the Borgaily Building forth San Pedro Street in Davao City. Thirteen agents were assassin and there were 381 enrolees. Dr. Efigenia C. Occeña was the Acting Coordinator. The acceptable courses were originally the six year complete Elementary Course, two-year

Secondary Course (1st and 2nd years), two year Elementary Teacher Certificate, two-year Associate in Commercial Science, and two-year Associate in Arts. To board the accretion amount of Enrolees, the Board of Trustees absitively to buy Club Royale forth Legaspi Street and adapted to clothing classroom requirements. New accoutrements of acreage were purchased forth Bolton and Bonifacio Street which is the present area of the capital campus and Embassy Area respectively. The University’s access erected added with the enactment of the Mindanao Collegian, the aboriginal chargeless campus cardboard in Mindanao. It became the training area of the Davao News cardboard men, a lot of them foreground liner’s of the city’s bounded publications up to this date. The student-editors from the aboriginal canicule of the Mindanao Collegian are now the “who’s-who” in Mindanao’s media, government and business zeitgeist.

Foreign linkages were sparked if Atty. Torres larboard for the US for a sponsored abstraction bout on May 1955. These bondages augment the UM’s ambit and advice it accessory up for added arduous all-around competitiveness. Some of them were the University on the Air (1971); Sister University agreements with the John Dewey International University Consortium of America, New York City and the Fongchia Academy of Engineering and Business of Taipei, Taiwan.


As its aim of accouterment “education for all,” UM became accepted not alone a part of average classes but aswell to those poor but admirable adolescent dreamers. The Open Apprenticeship Affairs in the aboriginal 70s enabled the academy to advice the poor but admirable academy undergraduates active in the business and branch sites and self-employed to acquire a academy education. From getting a apprehensive Mindanao Colleges in Bolton, it blossomed into the University of Mindanao on December 21, 1966 and has spawned 10 added branches to the afar arena in 1948 in Digos, Bangoy, Peñaplata, Tagum (1950), Guianga (1952), Ilang- Tibungco (1951), Panabo (1951), Bansalan (1962), Cotabato (1959), Toril and a sprawling acquirements arena in Matina. UM is the aboriginal non-sectarian university in Mindanao. The development of the Matina Campus with new basement ancillary by ancillary with the advance of the University’s angel through accreditation with the PACUCOA was pursued with ability by its founders and the UM family. As the admired historian Josefina C. San Pedro said it, “ As anniversary beginning alum faces the adventurous new world, able and ready, let it be consistently be remembered that this was how he (Guillermo E. Torres, Sr.) envisioned things to be.” His eyes of “education for all” is now able-bodied accepted in the university that is always acknowledging to the development of the country.

His dream lives on with anniversary casual year, acutely abiding in the continuing history of the University of Mindanao as its graduates accommodated the challenges of the future.” Keeping the bake afire is something apprenticeship never ceases to pass. Its charcoal serve as allegorical ablaze for those who admiration to apprentice and advance the superior of life. From a one man’s vision, the achievement of the nation and approaching of the adolescent dreamers who appear to UM’s halls lie.