Samar State University
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Samar State University is the only university in the province of Samar, Philippines. The main campus is in Brgy. Guidapunan Catbalogan, Samar (formerly known as the Samar State Polytechnic College). It has 2 external campuses, the Paranas Campus (formerly known as the Wright Vocational School) in Paranas, Samar, and the Mercedes Campus (the former Samar Regional School of Fisheries) in Brgy. Mercedes Catbalogan, Samar.
[edit] Colleges
The university has 7 colleges and one department. It offers variety of courses from secondary to post graduate studies.
- College of Graduate Studies
- College of Engineering
- College of Nursing
- College of Education
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Technology
- College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences
- Secondary Department
A satellite campus in Basey will be housing the College of Agriculture and Forestry soon.
HISTORY OF SSU
The Samar State University is an educational landmark of vital importance to the province of Samar. It gives everyone the opportunity to pursue higher education, which is very much needed for vocational proficiency, and individual as well as national development.
Samar Trade School was its name upon establishment in 1912, serving as laboratory shop of the Samar Provincial High School. Made later as a purely secondary trade school, it had its first graduation exercise in 1932. On June 21, 1959, by virtue of Republic Act No.2435, the Samar trade school was converted to Samar School of Arts and Trade. It was authorized to offer a two-year technical curriculum in various vocational courses. Not long after, the school was given the leeway to offer the four-year teacher-education curriculum, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education (BSIE) and the four-year technical education curriculum, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology (BSIT). It expanded its program to the evening opportunity classes and extension services and the masteral level. In 1981, SSAT, became one of the twenty-three vocational technical institutes in the Philippines to receive the Asian Development Bank of the Philippines-Vocational Technical (ADV-VOC-TECH) counterpart loan of the MECS in the form of equipment for Automotive, Electronics, Civil and Machine Shop Technology. With Batas Pambansa 323 passed on September 7, 1982 and approved on November 18 of the same year, SSAT was converted into the SAMAR STATE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE. From serving as a laboratory shop of a provincial school, it has metamorphosed into a training ground of not only secondary but also tertiary, masteral and doctoral students, all of these, not only seeking for their own place in the field of Philippine labor, but earnestly seeking for and working for self-fulfillment and peace and progress for the Philippines.
On October 1999, the Samar Regional School of Fisheries (SRSF) was generated to the college as provided for in Republic Act 8745 and as implemented in the General Appropriation Act of 1999. As recommended by the College Council and later approved by the Board of Trustees, the SRSF has become SSPC Mercedes Campus. As one of the colleges it is now known as the College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences.
On August 7, 2004, the Samar State Polytechnic College by virtue of Republic Act 9313 was converted into Samar State University integrating therewith the Wright Vocational School in Paranas, Samar
Courses Offered (SY 2006-2007)
College of Graduate Studies
PhD in Educational Management
PhD in Technology Management
Master of Arts
MA in Education
MA in Elementary Education
MA in Vocational Education
MA in Teaching Vocational Education
Master in Technician Education
Master in Public Management
Master of Engineering (Water/Construction/Management)
College of Engineering
BS in Civil Engineering
BS in Computer Engineering
BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering
BS in Electrical Engineering
College of Nursing
BS in Nursing
College of Education
Bachelor in Secondary Education
Bachelor of Elementary Education
BS in Idustrial Education
BS in Technician Education
College of Arts and Sciences
BS in Information Technology
BS in Applied Statistics
Bachelor of Information Technology
BS Information Management
BS in Psychology
College of Technology
BS in Industrial Teachnology
Bachelor of Technology
Bachelor of Industrial Technology
Competency-Based Vocational Education
College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences
Master of Science in Fisheries Education
Bachelor of Science in Fisheries
Bachelor of Secondary Education (Fisheries Education)
Secondary (BEC)
