URDANETA CITY CAMPUS

San Vicente, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

Tel. Nos. (075) 568-2040 / 568-2556

Dr. Artemio M. Rebugio
Campus Dean

CAMPUS MISSION

PSU Urdaneta City aims to provide quality education in the Natural & Applied Sciences and the Arts, conduct relevant technological and scientific research, and deliver productive community services.

CAMPUS GOALS

1. To provide competent and highly skilled manpower through quality education in the Natural & Applied Sciences and the Arts, particularly Mathematics, Engineering, Communication Technology, Teacher Education and Language study;

2. To help improve the quality of life in the countryside through the extension of relevant services, which includes the application of the products of professional research and the transfer of mature technologies. 

CAMPUS OBJECTIVES

1. To provide deserving students with quality education in pure mathematics, statistics, computer information systems, chemistry, architecture, the various engineering enterprises, teacher education and language arts with the end in view of preparing them for profitable employment in the government bureaucracy and private industries and manufacturing enterprises;

2. To provide students who possess the aptitude for manual work high-standard industrial skills that will enable them to hold high-paying jobs in the industry, if not establish their own employment network;

3. To monitor the development in the Natural & Applied Sciences and the Arts leading towards the enrichment of existing curricula to sustain the competencies of the graduates in the employment market;

4. To upgrade the competencies of the faculty and staff through relevant personnel development programs and the institution of a performance appraisal system that involves the students and other clientele;

5. To enhance the opportunities of poor but deserving students to avail of quality education through the aid of the Institution’s scholarship programs;

6. To conduct educational, socio-economic, technological and scientific researches to enhance instructional effectiveness, keep curricular programs focused on the dynamic societal and economic conditions, upgrade existing farm, household and other mechanical equipment to enhance productivity in agriculture and other industries, develop profitable technology that signify to energy generation and conservation, and advance the frontier of science;

7. To undertake extension service projects that will enable out-of-school youths and unemployed adults to acquire practical skills that may be used in the pursuit of gainful employments as well as to help promote human dignity and the quality of life in the countryside;

8. To establish linkages with government and non-government organizations to facilitate cooperative endeavors that support the campus’ programs and projects.

PSU URDANETA CITY HISTORY

PSU Urdaneta City Campus is situated in the veritable melting pot and fast-growing education center in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. Its historical origin reflects the noble traces of hard-pushed efforts, determination, political savvy and administrative acumen of its founder and the enthusiastic support of the faculty and staff, the University administration, the political leaders in the service area and the people of Urdaneta City in general.

What is now known as PSU Urdaneta City Campus System traces its humble beginnings as a geographic satellite of PSU Asingan, its mother campus. In such status, it took effect by virtue of PSU Memorandum No. 3, s. 1987. This project to create a satellite campus in Urdaneta was inspired from the visions and ideas of Dr. Rodolfo V. Asanion, who was then Dean of PSU Asingan Campus. Dr. Asanion, at a later time, became the University President. With the help of concerned agencies including then Ministry of Budget headed by Min. Manuel Alba, the Municipal Government of Urdaneta under Hon. Amadeo R. Perez, Jr., through the approval of a pertinent Sanguniang Bayan Resolution, the Urdaneta, satellite campus, of PSU Asingan was realized. The once complex system of PSU Asingan was under the administration of one College Dean with two Associate Deans in each of its two geographic satellites. At that time, the two campuses had to share the meager budget. In time, Urdaneta satellite campus surmounted every difficulty that confronted it and improved its capacity to accommodate more and more students. In turn, these promising indicators became catalytic for its pioneering faculty to peddle for its autonomy from the mother campus and turn it into a standard College of Engineering. With the full support of the Sanguniang Bayan of Urdaneta, separation was sought through Board resolution No. 82, s. 1989 which took effect on August 1, 1989, thereby creating the PSU Urdaneta Campus system as the University’s bastion in terms of its Engineering and Technology programs.

To date, PSU Urdaneta City Campus has far surpassed the enrolment population of PSU Asingan and is currently the fastest growing campus in terms of enrollment across the nine campuses of the University. From its initial academic programs, the campus has subsequently extended to accommodate a wider array of course offerings which, at present, include the following:

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

· BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

· BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENGLISH

· BACHELOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION in Filipino

· BACHELOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION in Pre-Elementary Education

In 2005, by virtue of Resolution No. 7, s. 2005 approved on February 3, 2005 by the PSU Board of Regents under the administration of then University President Dr. Rodolfo Asanion, the PSU-Eastern Cluster was instituted which legitimated the academic and administrative integration of the three PSU Campuses in Eastern Pangasinan to wit: PSU Urdaneta, PSU Asingan and PSU Sta. Maria. In this new system, the campuses were treated as geographic satellites of the Cluster. The system presupposed its divisions into the five “academic units” that comprised it, ordaining five program deans to respectively supervise these units. At the time, PSU-EC Urdaneta satellite was the seat of the PSU-EC College of Engineering & Architecture under the deanship of Engr. Raul Gonzales and succeeded by Dr. Zenaida Suyat, and the PSU-EC Institute of ICT under the deanship of Mr. Aurelie Peralta. The overall management of the Cluster was under a Chancellor with Dr. Artemio Rebugio commissioned to occupy this office. This system turned out to be short-lived and was eventually dissolved in July 2008, thereby returning the three geographic satellites their original status as individual campus systems. Dr. Benigno Castro who was then the University VP for Academic Affairs assumed the office as the Campus Dean of the freshly reinstated PSU Urdaneta City campus.

To date, the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) has consistently recognized PSU Urdaneta City as one of the Top Performing Schools nationwide in terms of the performance of its graduates in the Engineering board examinations reflecting the sterling educational excellence of the campus in its flagship programs.