University of San Carlos

Location: Pantaleon Del Rosario Street, Cebu City
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: School
Status: Level II: Historical marker
Marker date: 2010

Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Marker text:

UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS

ESTABLISHED AT THE INSTANCE OF BISHOP MATEO JOAQUIN RUBIO DE AREVALO AS SEMINARIO DE SAN CARLOS AT THE FORMER SITE OF COLEGIO SAN ILDEFONSO OF THE JESUITS, 1779. BECAME SEMINARIO CONCILIAR DE SAN CARLOS, 1825. ADMINISTERED BY THE VINCENTIANS AND RENAMED SEMINARIO–COLEGIO DE SAN CARLOS, 1867. SERGIO OSMEÑA, FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES, ONE OF THE FIRST GRADUATES CONFERRED A BACHELOR’S DEGREE, 1894. FORMED AS A CORPORATION UNDER RECTOR JACINTO VILLALAIN, 1911. SEPARATED FROM THE SEMINARY, 1922. TRANSFERRED TO THIS SITE, 1930. PLACED UNDER THE SOCIETY OF THE DIVINE WORD (SVD), 1935. REOPENED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1945. BECAME UNIVERSITY, 1948. FR. AMANTE CASTILLO, FIRST FILIPINO PRESIDENT, 1970.