CHED renews UC's "Autonomous Status"

The University of the Cordilleras has been granted Autonomous Status by the Commission on Higher Education, as per CHED CMO No. 12, series of 2019 released this October. UC is among only 68 private higher education institutions in the country, and among the three universities in Baguio City, to be granted this status.

Autonomous Status is granted by CHED to select institutions that passed and complied with the commission's stringent review and accreditation process. An autonomous university may freely design their own curricula, offer new programs, establish branches or satellite campuses, confer honorary degrees, and carry out operations without having to secure permits and without much interference from CHED.

UC has been granted Autonomous Status since 2010.

Awarded by the Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity*
*Founded by Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban
and the Tan Yan Kee Foundation

Awarded "Best School Nationwide" in Disaster Readiness & Preparedness in 2015 & 2017, UC was cited for the 4th year in a row, by Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana in an awards ceremony conducted annually by the DND Office of Civil Defense at the PICC Plenary Hall on 6 December 2019.

A contingent of students and faculty from the University of the Cordilleras College of Law led by UC Law Dean Atty. Reynaldo U. Agranzamendez represented the entire UC Community in expressing its condolences to the bereaved family of His Honor Judge Mario Anacleto Bañez as they visited the late judge's wake in San Fernando, La Union on November 11, 2019.

With the aim of introducing coding as a means to end wildlife trafficking, two teams of students from the University of the Cordilleras (UC) bagged the second and third spots in the Zoohackathon Philippines, each receiving a funding of P150,000 pesos to kickstart their projects into reality.