Dr. Meda San Juan
Dean, Graduate Studies







The Graduate School as a department was created in 1953, five years after the foundation of the University of Nueva Caceres in 1948. Called the Graduate Department for Education it was primarily created to meet the needs of teachers who wanted to acquire skills and competence in teaching. Necessarily, the courses offering under each program were those in the field of Education.

Responsive as always to the needs of its clientele, the graduate school has expended its program both in the masteral and doctoral levels along fields of management and public adminstration with emphasis on research. Cognizant of the role of graduate education establishing societal equilimbrium derived from findings of researches written by scholars, it has dedicated itself to stimulating, encouraging and producing functional researches geared towards the developmental goals of the country at large and the Bicol Region in particular.

On the other hand, the Graduate School under its many program contains provisions for the acquisition of skills or training for a profession, critical thinking and development of analytical perspective.

General Aims in the Various Disciplines

The school of Graduate Studies aims to develop a high degree of intellectual and professional competence so as to produce individuals who are scholarly, creative and fully equipped for leadership functions and productive work in the disciplines of Teachers Education, Environmental Science, and Physical Sciences.


Specific Objectives

To develop qualified individuals to be effective instruments of inquiry.

To improve competence in teaching, supervision, administration, management, physical and environmental sciences, business and public administration and library science.

To estimate, encourage and produce researches relevant to the development goals of the region and the country.

To broaden awareness of one's role in the transmission, preservation and enrichment of our national legacies.

To sharpen and strengthen appreciation for our historical, literary and cultural heritage and thus clarify and enhance national unity through diversities.


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