American University of Sovereign Nations is honored to have signed a MOU with Bicol University. Bicol University is an institution promoting scholarship, leadership, character, and service as its core values, Bicol University is the premier state university in the Bicol Region of the Philippines.  It boasts a population of 26,352 scholars for school year 2015-2016, served by 542 faculty and 329 non-teaching personnel.  Founded in 1969, it has risen to SUC Level IV status, a prestige it has enjoyed since 1998. 

Bicol University evolved out of the six reputable educational institutions integrated to form the first state university in Region V through Republic Act 5521 enacted on June 21, 1969. The College of Education was established out of the fusion of Bicol Teachers College (BTC) and its Laboratory School, the Daraga East Central School in Daraga and the Albay High School in Legazpi City. The Bicol Regional School for Arts and Trades (BRSAT) with a vocational high school unit attached to it was the precursor of the College of Engineering and the College of Industrial Technology. The Roxas Memorial Agricultural School (RMAS) in Guinobatan, Albay, also with a vocational high school, became the College of Agriculture and Forestry. The School of Fisheries in Tabaco City and its high school became the College of Fisheries, which is today known as the Tabaco Campus.

In 2004, the full implementation of the vertical articulation of the course programs of the Comprehensive Development Plan spawned the emergence of service colleges for general education courses, as well as professional colleges, such as the College of Science, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and the College of Business, Economics and Management.

To date, BU operates in seven campuses, with 16 colleges serving Albay and Sorsogon. The university offers complete education from pre-school to graduate level. 

AUSN and Bicol University have held several collaborate conferences to promote bioethics education, environmental and social development in 2016 and 2017.

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