BSU started as the La Trinidad Farm School, which was elevated to Trinidad Agricultural School (TAS) in 1920. The school reopened after World War II and became the La Trinidad Agricultural High School. Four months later, it was nationalized and renamed as the Mountain National Agricultural School (MNAS). It was soon converted into the Mountain National College (MNAC), Mountain Agricultural College (MAC), and Mountain State Agricultural College (MSAC) in 1969 through Republic Act 5923.[1][4]
On January 12, 1986, the school was converted into a chartered state university by virtue of Presidential Decree 2010.[2][1]
As of May 2018, Benguet State University is recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a Center of Excellence (COE) for Teacher education, and Center of Development (COD) for both Agriculture education, and Nutrition and Dietetics.[5]
Academicsedit
BSU has two satellite campuses, 15 colleges and a graduate school. It also runs an open university. These units offer graduate and undergraduate degree programs in agriculture, forestry, teacher's education, nursing, physical sciences and the arts. Some units offer non-degree programs and short courses.[6]
Besides having college campuses, the school had also elementary and secondary campuses called Elementary Laboratory School (ELS) and the secondary as the Secondary Laboratory School (SLS). The ELS campus is located at Km. 5, La Trinidad while the SLS campus is in the Outpost, La Trinidad.
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^ ab"Presidential Decree 2010". The LawPhil Project. Philippine Government. January 12, 1986. Retrieved October 9, 2008.
^"Accredited Programs (All Years 1992-2017); Benguet State University" (PDF). Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 20, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
^"An Act Converting the Mountain Agricultural College in the Municipality of La Trinidad, Province of Benguet, to a State College to be known as the Mountain State Agricultural College". Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. June 21, 1969. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
^"Table 6. Distribution of Programs with COE/COD by Region and Sector: AY 2017-18" (PDF). Commission on Higher Education. pp. 3, 17, 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 20, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
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