Central Philippine University

Central Philippine University, also known as Central or CPU, is a private research university located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. It was established in 1905 through the benevolent grant of the American industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. It is the first Baptist and second-American founded university in the Philippines and Asia. The university was initially known as the Jaro Industrial School and Bible School, under the supervision of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital, the university's hospital founded in 1901, is the first Protestant and American hospital in the Philippines. CPU played a pioneering role in nursing education in the Philippines by establishing the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906, which later became the Central Philippine University - College of Nursing, the first nursing school in the Philippines. Additionally, the university was the first to establish a Baptist theological seminary in the country, the CPU College of Theology; the first student council in Southeast Asia, the CPU Republic; and the first government-recognized agricultural school outside of Luzon, the CPU College of Agriculture, Resources, and Environmental Sciences. The university consists of eighteen schools and colleges that offer instruction from basic education to post-graduate levels. Its undergraduate programs include colleges such as Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences; Arts and Sciences; Business and Accountancy; Computer Studies; Education; Engineering; Hospitality Management; Medical Laboratory Science; Nursing; Pharmacy; and Theology. At the graduate level, CPU offers programs in Law, Medicine, and Graduate Studies.