College of Information Technology and Computer Science
CHED Center of Excellence in IT Education (since 2006)
CHED Delivering HEI for MIT, DIT (Regions 1, 2, 4, CAR
CHED Regional Center of Development for Excellence in IT Education (1999-2006)
Industry-defined Curricula (SAP, CISCO, ORACLE, Texas Instruments, Cypress)
DOST Accredited Science Education Institute Scholarship Programs
Recipient of DOST and CHED grants on Technology and Innovation Projects
PAASCU Accredited Programs
Students hired prior to graduation
Programs
The ACT program provides students with knowledge and skills to support IT professionals and the IT needs of organizations. Students in the ACT program can manage computer systems and maintain computer networks.
Students in the BSIT program acquire knowledge and skills that shall enable them to fulfill the roles played by IT professionals in key industries and the government. Such roles range from application installation to the design, development, and maintenance of computer networks and databases. Students opt for their chosen concentration from among three tracks: Network and Security, Web Technology, and Enterprise Resource Planning.
The BSCS program provides its students with a rigorous grasp of the theoretical and applied aspects of computing, especially in three essential research fields: Machine Learning, Data Science, and Digital Arts and Animation. As a research-oriented program, students are equipped with adequate skills in applying theories, methodologies, and techniques in the development of multifaceted software systems and advancing new knowledge in the field of computing.
The BSDA program equips its students with expertise and knowledge to support innovation, planning, and management of information infrastructure. The expertise and knowledge are crucial in the ability of IT professionals to direct and control information resources within diverse organizational settings.
The Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLIS) is a degree program that is designed to equip students with the knowledge and industry-defined skills required for managing digital, electronic, print, and non-print information resources; communicating and collaborating with library stakeholders; and developing a passion for life-long learning. Career opportunities upon graduation include professional librarianship, research, publishing, consultancy, and providing other information-related services to clients.
Graduate Programs
The MIT program enables its students to undertake fundamental industrial practices, namely, systems planning, systems development, systems integration, systems implementation, and systems administration. Students opt for one concentration from among three tracks: Professional Science Master’s Track Enterprise Solutions Track, and Web Solutions Track.
Artificial Intelligence Track. The artificial intelligence track guides researchers on the study of systems that can make decisions or performing tasks based on stimuli from the environment.
Data Science Track. The data science track directs researchers on the use of mathematics, algorithms, computer systems, domain expertise, and scientific methods to extract significant intuitions from data for decision making.
The MIT program enables its students to undertake fundamental industrial practices, namely, systems planning, systems development, systems integration, systems implementation, and systems administration. Students opt for one concentration from among three tracks: Professional Science Master’s Track Enterprise Solutions Track, and Web Solutions Track.
Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Track. The PSM track was designed in collaboration with Texas Instruments Philippines, Inc. (TIPI) through the Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This track develops professionals that excel in information and communication technology while simultaneously cultivating highly valued business skills.
Enterprise Solutions Track. The enterprise solutions track aims to enable professional that can lead the design, development, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. These professionals use ERP systems to improve the efficiency of organizations by managing the business processes while satisfying the needs of the different functional areas.
Web Solutions Track. The web solutions track empowers IT professionals in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of distributed systems. Students in this track are exposed to works on databases, servers, systems engineering, and client interactions to prepare them to become full-stack developers.
This graduate program equips its students with proficiency and mastery that enables them to embark on IT projects and conduct researches that are geared toward addressing relevant social issues. IT projects, research, and publications on project management theories and practices, systems architecture, big data, cybersecurity, and IT trends are expected from graduate students in this program.
About
In 1986, the University of the Cordilleras, then known as the Baguio Colleges Foundation, became the first institution in Baguio City to offer a four-year course in Computer Science. Under the umbrella of the Arts and Sciences, this new division started with barely 100 students, 4 faculty members, and one course offering: Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer Science.
With its transition from a division to a separate college in June 1995, the College grew to more than 1,200 students and 34 faculty members.
In keeping with the philosophy of the University of the Cordilleras, the College of Information Technology and Computer Science has recognized its responsibility to respond to the changing needs of society, particularly in the field of Information Technology.
The College is aware that today's technology revolves around the indispensability of the computer in the fields of computations, database systems, web & graphics, networking & security, mobile technology and digital arts.
The present courses offered by the College are geared towards bolstering computing competencies, a vital role it plays in the community.
In 2007, CHED Conferred the highest academic status to the college as "Center of Excellence". UC holds the distinction of being among the nation's top nine(9) in IT education.
To fulfill these, the College shall strive to:
- Upgrade periodically the Institution's course offerings focusing on innovative tools, current trends, and industry requirements;
- Prepare the student to apply his/her acquired academic skills to his/her related profession with commitment and dedication;
- Excel in the use of Information Technology (IT) facilities, their prototypes and development, including evaluations and tests; and
- Become the Institution's number one provider of Information Technology tools to promote people productivity at lower costs.
Vision-Mission
The CITCS mission is to provide competent instruction geared towards the development of responsible Information Technology (IT) professionals equipped with skills and strong moral values, thus, becoming the preferred source of services and manpower .
Milestones
From its humble beginnings, the College has continually strived to deliver quality IT education.
These are the highlights of events that transpired through the years.
1996
• Received scholarship grants for students from Texas Instruments Philippines, Inc. (TIPI)
• Established with TIPI the 1st Work Appreciation Program (WAP) for faculty members in addition to the existing student's OJT
1997
• The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) and Associate in Computer Technology (ACT) programs were accredited by the DOST for its scholarship program.
• The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) program replaced the existing BSICS.
1998
• CS was awarded the Microsoft Corporate Solutions Program, Philippine Reference Award.
• Student's population is two thousand five hundred fourteen (2514) - the highest number of enrollees.
1999
• The College was identified as the Regional Center of Development for Excellence in Information Technology Education (CODE-ITE) by CHED.
• CITCS was accredited as a Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Program.
• A Memorandum of Agreement was established with De La Salle University for the conduct of an Information Technology Education (ITE) graduate program (MCS) in UC.
• A total of nineteen (19) IT faculty members were awarded with FAPE scholarship grants to pursue graduate studies in ITE at UC.
2000
• Master in Computer Science program and Bachelor of Science in Information Management were initially offered.
• The College was represented for the first time in the National Board of the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE).
2001
• The College spearheaded the North Luzon PSITE Regional Chapter organization
• The College hosted the OOP-JAVA Seminar in cooperation with the DOST, Sun Microsystems, and the University of the Philippines - Diliman
2002
• CITCS underwent initial survey by the Philippine Accrediting
• Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU).
• The Master in Computer Science program received government recognition from the Commission on Higher Education.
• UC-CITCS was recognized as an Oracle Academic Initiative Member Institution.
• The College hosted set of National and Regional ICT events:
- APEC Training on Networking
- DOST Science and Technology Fair
PSITE National MSW - "Kaizen on ITE Curriculum"
2003
• The College offered a new program: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
2004
• PAASCU granted Level 1 accreditation to the BSCS Program.
• CISCO accredited the College as a CCNA Academy Center
• The College hosted the 2004 National Conference of Information Technology Educators.
• The college presented an ICT technical paper and awarded best academic paper during the DOST-ICT4D conference.
2005
• The faculty members actively participated in CHED-related activities, such as the Zonal Research, and ITE Curriculum Development Workshop; and served as IQuAME Assesor, and Regional Quality Assurance Team.
• Actively participated in the development of ITE ladderized curriculum under TESDA.
• The Ladderized Education Program was initially offered.
• The College became a member of MS Partners in Learning.
• The college has ten (10) faculty members with master's degree in ITE.
• Identified as CHED-Delivering Institution for MIT in both CHED-HEDP-FDP and PGMA-SEGS.
2006
• The College was represented as member of Technical Working Group in CHED's Science and Engineering Graduate Scholarship and Cyber Corridor Bridging Program.
• The College was identified as the lead university in the SEIPI-ASITEP-PSITE Software Development Collaboration.
• Served as host university of the 9th PSITE National Convention, February 2007 in Baguio City.
• PAASCU granted Level II accreditation to the BSCS Program.
• Hosted the following regional and national IT activities and conventions:
- Animation Workshop/Digital Arts, in partnership with
- Animation Council of the Philippines Inc.
- ICT Research, in partnership with Computing Society of the Philippines.
- DLSU Lecture Series on Emerging ICTs
- POSITIVE Program Courseware Roll-out Program for Northern Luzon
- CISCO QA Instructor Summit
• CHED confers the "Center of Excellence" status to UC-CITCS for a period of three (3) years.
2007
• The 1st batch of MIT scholars graduated.
• The College hosted the SEAMEO Innotech Excels Program, CHEDCyber Corridor Program and Regional Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) IT Research Seminar.
• US-Peace Corps Volunteer for IT Faculty.
• Institutional membership to Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP).
• Partnership with Texas Instruments for Post-Baccalaureate IT Bridging Program.
• Faculty Industry Immersion with Cypress Semiconductors.
• The college was accredited as member of Cypress University Alliance.
2008
• A total of 157 ITE faculty from regions 1,2,5 and CAR enrolled as scholars in the MIT Program.
• Hosted the DOST Packaging and Labeling Contest.
2009
• Hosted 1st Regional PeLS Kapihan in coordination with Philippine E-learning Society (PeLS).
• Recipient of CHED's Academic Industry Faculty Project in collaboration with GEODATA Information Systems.
• Granted a license to deliver Diploma of Information Technology (Australian Qualification).
2010
• Identified as TI-SAP/R3's sole HEI partner in the Philippines particularly, the industry-led ERP curriculum.
• Institutional membership to SAP-UAP.
• Institutional membership to MS Dreamspark.
• Established an joint software development with the Asian Institute of Technology Consulting-Thailand. Faculty members are involved in actual software development project with AIT Consulting.
• Instituted the UC-MIT off-campus program at Saint Paul University of the Philippines.
• Re-accredited by CHED to be a Delivering Institution for MIT, HEDP-FDP Phase 2 with 259 scholars.
2011
• CHED COE Status of UC-CITCS extended for another 3 years
• Established linkage with Accenture and Fujitsu including hiring of 10 UC-SAP graduates
• Recognized as a CHED Delivering Institution for the Doctor of Information Technology program
• Received student scholarship grants from Texas Instruments Philippines, Inc. (TIPI)
• Received 10 scholarship grants from Bert Lina Foundation
• First batch of SAP graduates
2012
• Initial offering of the UC-DIT Program.
• Forged a consortium for the Doctor in IT program with the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok and the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City.
• DOST accredited the MIT program.
2013
• Instituted the UC-MIT Off-Campus Program at Bicol University.
• Strengthened partnership with Texas Instruments, Phils. Inc. thru faculty industry immersion in IT-ACE SAP.
• Reaccredited CHED HEDP-FDP Phase II for MIT.
2014
• Level 1 accreditation granted by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) for the BSIT Program.
• Identified as one of the top schools who joined SAP Lumira University Challenge.
2015
• Offered for the first time the Business Analytics Track for the BSIT Program.
• Instituted another UC-MIT Off-Campus Program at Abra.
• The UC-MIT Batch II Off-Campus Program at Legazpi City started.
• Google Android Master’s Champion for an application developed by CITCS students on crime mapping.
2016
• CHED COE Status of UC-CITCS extended for another 3 years.
• MIT Professional Science Master’s Track (MIT-PSM) was offered in cooperation with Texas Instruments, Phils. Inc. (TIPI), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) project.
2017
• CITCS Students were selected to join the AIT-Tiger Leong International Innovation and Leadership Camp at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
2018
• Level 2 accreditation granted by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) for the BSIT and BSCS Programs.
• Initial offering of the Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics.
• Hosted the 14th National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium by the Computing Society of the Philippines – Special Interest Group in Natural Language Processing.
• Organized in partnership with National University the Inter-University Computing Research Colloquium.
• Organized in partnership with Universitas Islam Indonesia the International Conference on Information Technology and Digital Applications.
• Lead HEI in partnership with Technological Institute of the Philippines for the CHED funded Salikha Project.
2019
• Hosted the Kabadang 2019 (guided research publication in Scopus or Web of Science Indexed Journals by HEI faculty members in CAR) in partnership with the Regional Association of Research Educators – CAR and CHED-CAR.
• Faculty members were trained on establishing and managing the Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Office (INTO) of the University by USAID-STRIDE and DOST-PCIEERD.
• Students were recognized in national competitions.
- o Champion during the Impact Hackathon 2019 – Luzon Leg.
- o Champion during the 1ST PNP ITMS-PCSO Hackathon 2019.
- o 2ND and 3rd Places during the 1ST Zoohackathon Philippines.
- o 2ND Runner-up during the Impact Hackathon 2019 – Nationals.
- o Finalist in the 5TH Philippine Start-up Challenge.
2020
• Secured a grant from DOST-PCIEERD to the establish the UC INTO with the leadership of CITCS faculty members.
• Renamed the Master in Computer Science (MCS) to Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS).
• Undergraduate students presented six research papers in International Conferences in China and Japan.
• Hosted hackathons in partnership with Arizona State University and Hult Prize Foundation.
• Identified as one of the top schools during the national ERPSim Competition.
News Bulletin
Contact Information
DEAN
- INGOSAN, Jeffrey S.BSCS, MCS, DIT
Full-time Faculty Members
- Almarez, Joshua Carbie D.BSIT
- Aspiras, Laurie Lynne F.BSCS
- Balay-odao, Gem P.BSCS
- Bayani, Eugene Frank G.BSCS, MCGA, MDM
- Beninsig, Melinda A.BS Math, MIT, MA Math
- Busaing, Kayralyn P.BSCS
- Catala, Paul Terese L.BSIT
- Concepcion, Natividad B.BSICS, MCS, DIT
- Dang-il, Althea Krisha Lei B.BSCS
- Dela Cruz, Jhunfel S.BSIT
- Fagyan, Zyra Yell A.BSIT
- Foryasen, Zen Lee D.BSCS
- Fronda, Roma Joy D.BS Math, MS Math
- Gama, Adrianne Nicole M.BSFA
- Gayyed, Arnemie B.BSIT
- Gonzales, Christine T.BSIT
- Hanbal, Ibrahim F.BSCS, MIT
- Jacinto, Philip Irving G.BSIT, MIT
- Malabanan, Don Harl C.BSCS
- Mang-usan, Walter L.BSICS, MIT
- Martirez, Jessie D.BSIT
- Maynigo, Janelle P.BSIT
- Meing, Luis William C.BSIT
- Mirador, Aldith Faith P.BSIT
- Moltio, Bretz Harllynne M.BSIT
- Nicolas, Venn Edward P.BSIT
- Ortiz, Marie Grace V.BS Math, MIT, MAEd MHTH
- Palaoag, Thelma D.BSICS, MCS, DIT
- Pangan, Efraim Jededia Z.BSCS
- Pati, Felipe Jr. D.BSECE, MCS, PhD Mgmt
- Peralta, Joan M.BSCS, MIT
- Quitaleg, Anna Rhodora M.BSCS, MIT, MATE TVS
- Reformado, Lovely JennBSCS, MIT
- Reyes, Leonard Prim Francis G.BSICS, MIT
- Tamayo, Dynah M.BSIT
- Tamondong, Genes Fidel A.BSCS
- Valdez, Mishael M.BSCS
Part-time Faculty Members
- Hidalgo, Reynald JayBSCS, MSCS, DIT
- Kiweng, Clyde A.BSIT
- Pacalso, Jerry Junior C.BSIT
- Pangilinan, Jose MarieBSCE, MSCS, DS
- Peralta, Gian Troi K.BSIT