Benguet State UniversityBenguet State University is a Marked Structure, NHCP located at La Trinidad, Benguet, CAR.
Benguet State University started as the La Trinidad Farm School with 30 grade V pupils in 1916. The Farm School expanded its services and heightened its prominence in La Trinidad. According to earlier reports, the Farm School was “planned to develop into a large normal school where the best Igorot pupils will be trained to be teachers among their own people with emphasis on agriculture.” In 1920, the farm school was elevated as the Trinidad Agricultural School with 188 students enrolled in first year high school. Re-opening after the war in 1946, the school became the La Trinidad Agricultural High School. On January 12, 1986, the college was converted to a state university by virtue of Presidential Decree (PD) No. 2010 signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos. (Source: http://www.bsu.edu.ph/content/history-0)
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Benguet State University
Nagsimula bilang Farm School. 1916. Nanguna sa pagtataguyod ng mga sekondaryang edukasyon at edukasyong pang-agrikultura sa mga katutubong mag-aaral ng mga lalawigang sakop ng dating Mountain Province (ngayo’y Cordillera Administrative Region). Isa sa mga nanguna sa mga kinakailangang reporestasyon sa Baguio at mga kalapit na bayan. Naging Mountain State Agricultural College, 1969, at Benguet State University, 1986.
Date Unveiled: September 27, 2016