History
The institution started as the Cebu College of Commerce (CCC) founded by Atty. Augusto W. Go with an opening enrollment of 239 in the first semester, 232 in the second semester, and 69 in the summer. It offered a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and an Associate in Secretarial Science in its initial year.
In its eighth year, as the Cebu College of Commerce, the enrollment was 4,185. More courses opened: Education, Liberal Arts, Criminology and Customs.
In 1972, CCC changed name to Cebu Central Colleges.
The list of curricular programs grew longer: Nursing, Midwifery, Health Aide; Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering; Hotel and Restaurant Management; Information and Computer Science; Computer Engineering; and a graduate school as well as Marine Officers Training Course.
UC, in 1983, was the first in Cebu and in the entire Region VII to offer a course offering on Computer Science after Go returned from a trip to the United States.
At the initiative of Dr. Erlinda Barcelo, founder of UC Chorus, the official choir of the University, PACU-COA accreditors visited the school on a preliminary visit for a Level 1 status of BSMT and AME from October 13 to 14, 1986. On February, 1988e, PACU-COA announced its recognition of the level 1 status of BSMT and AME.
In 1991, the BSMT Campus in Alumnos, Mambaling was inaugurated, the constitution of the Science and Technology Building at the South Expressway commenced and the New Cebu Coliseum acquired.
With 42 years of education, the University of Cebu (UC) has been awarded a "Deregulated" status by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), while recognized by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA) as a learning institution with the most accredited programs.
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