Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University is a recognized higher educational institution by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) that offers various degree programs and courses.
The Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University has been granted the benefits of free tuition and miscellaneous fees for its qualified college students by the Unified Student Financial Assistance System (UNIFAST) per the provision of RA 10931, otherwise known as Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.
Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University
| Address: | Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union, Philippines |
| Contact No: | (072) 242-5641; (072) 888-5354 |
| School Head: | Atty. Benjamin P. Sapitula – President |
| Year Established: | 1960 |
| Type: | Public – SUC Main (State Universities and Colleges |
| Website : | https://www.dmmmsu.edu.ph |
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:
| NORTH LA UNION CAMPUS – COURSES OFFERED: |
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College of Graduate Studies
College of Agriculture
Institute of Agricultural & BioSystems Engineering
Institute of Agribusiness Management
College of Education
Institute of Environmental Studies
College of Information Systems
College of Agroforestry & Forestry
College of Veterinary Medicine
College of Arts and Sciences
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| MID LA UNION CAMPUS – COURSES OFFERED: |
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College of Graduate Studies
College of Information Technology
College of Technology
College of Engineering
College of Education
College of Management
College of Arts & Sciences
College of Law
Institute of Criminal Justice Education
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| SOUTH LA UNION CAMPUS – COURSES OFFERED: |
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College of Graduate Studies
College of Education
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Computer Science
College of Agriculture
College of Fisheries
College of Community Health & Allied Medical Sciences
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| OPEN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM – COURSES OFFERED: |
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Graduate Programs
Post Baccalaureate Programs
Baccalaureate Programs
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Undergraduate
High School Graduates
- DMMMSU-College Admission Test
- Birth Certificate from the NSO
- Interview
- Form 138 (Report Card)
- Certification of Good Moral Character
- Barangay Clearance
- Medical Certificate of any Gov’t Physician
- 4 ID pictures (1 1”x1” and 3 2”x2”)
Transferees
- DMMMSU-College Admission Test
- Interview
- Certified True Copy of Grades
- Certificate of Transfer
- Weighted Average Grade of 2.5
- Credentials
- Medical Certificate of any Gov’t Physician
- Must not have incurred more than 30% failures or dropped subjects in the preceding semester
- 4 ID pictures (1 1”x1” and 3 2”x2”)
Foreign Students
- DMMMSU – College Admission Test
- Interview
- Verified Xerox Copy of Student Visa
- Verified Xerox Copy of Alien Cert. of Registration (ACR)
- Study Permit from CHED, Central Office
- Proficiency in English based on TOEFL Score
- Must meet all prescribed requirements by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Bureau of Immigration
Graduate College
- A bachelor or master’s degree or its equivalent which is relevant to the degree applied for with a GPA of 2.0
or better for the master’s degree and 1.75 or better for the doctorate degree. - Academic competence/proficiency shall be determined based on the OTR.
Enrolment Process:
To our DMMMSU students, please check on the online enrollment process below as your guide:
1. Online Registration
Qualified New Students
Before accomplishing our online registration system, download, print and accomplish your Free Higher Education (FHE) Form, prepare a scanned copy of your PSA birth certificate, Senior High School Card and 2×2 picture with name tag (you may use your phones with clear camera to capture these requirements if you have no available scanners).
Wait for your code numbers to be sent to you by your program chairperson via text/call/email. This will serve as your password to access our Online Registration System. Link of the Online Registration will be uploaded soon.
Old Students
Download, print and accomplish and scan (you may use your phones with clear camera to capture these requirement if you have no available scanners) your FHE form.
Use your LastName as your username and ID Number as your password.
For New Students and Old and Regular Students, you are not required to undertake the succeeding steps. The assigned faculty member in your college will do it for you. Wait for the confirmation of your enrollment.
2. Subject Loading
The chairperson will load your subjects in the enrollment system.
3. Enlistment and Assessment
The faculty member in-charge will enlist and assess your subjects in the system.
For irregular (old) students, visit your respective colleges during the scheduled date of enrollment to personally identify and choose your preferred subjects to be enrolled.
4. Payment
For new students, no fees (tuition fee and miscellaneous fees) will be collected as long as you have availed of the Free Higher Education Scholarship. However, if there are fees (mostly for old students) which are not included in the FHE, the student must settle their account balances via our campus remittance partner or campus Landbank account or at the cashier’s office observing minimum health standards before proceeding to the next step.
5. Validation
The registrars office will validate your assessment certificates as officially enrolled.
6. ID Application
New students/transferees will proceed to the MIS Office to apply for school ID. The schedule of ID Application will be announced during the first face-to-face meeting.
7. Student Portal
For new students/transferees, proceed to the library or other identified location to register for their student portal. The schedule of Student Portal Enrollment will be announced during the first face-to-face meeting.
SCHOLARSHIP:
SCHOLARSHIP/GRANTS-IN-AID
- Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES – RA 10931)
- CHED- StuFAPs
- Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund
- Department of Health
- National Commission on Indigenous People
- Government Service Insurance System
- Department of Science and Technology
- Department of Social Welfare and Development- ESGPPA
- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
- Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
- National Tobacco Administration
- Provincial Government of La Union – LUEASP
- Municipal Government of La Union
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION:
- National Grid Corporation
- Wong Chu King Foundation
- Atty. Abaya Foundation
- ASA Phil Foundation
- BASA
- Bauang Education Assistance Scholarship Program
- SUC Tulong Dunong Program (Cong. Sandra Eriguel)
- SUC Tulong Dunong Program (Cong. Pablo Ortega)
PRIVATE SCHOLARSHIP:
- CJ FERNANDEZ
- LA CARIDAD
- CEDSSG- Cong. Eric Singson
- Lawrence Burrow Trust
- Rudy Nisce
- Nardi Valero
- Philex
- La Union Vibrant Women Inc. ( LUVWI)
- Rang-Ay Bank
- Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company
- LUECO
HISTORY
Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University’s journey started its humble beginnings towards becoming a strong university that it is now – a university embracing world class standards.
Created by virtue of Presidential Decree 1778 on January 15, 1981, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU) was created to cater to the aspirations of the people merging five (5) former schools of La Union as follows: Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State College (formerly known as Don Mariano Marcos Memorial College of Agriculture and La Union Agricultural School) founded on June 18, 1960, located in Barangay Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union; La Union School of Arts and Trades (located in San Fernando, La Union, founded in 1907); Southern Ilocos Polytechnic State College (composed of Southern La Union National High School in Agoo, Sto. Tomas College of Fisheries, and Rosario National Agricultural School established on July 28, 1977); Community College of La Union (located in San Fernando founded in 1968); and Sapilang Elementary School (located in Barangay Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union founded in June 1969).
Embodied in its charter, the University has a mandate to provide advanced instruction in the arts, agriculture, forestry, fishery, engineering, and natural sciences as well as in the technological and professional fields; and to promote research and engage in extension.
The late Dr. Bienvenido P. Agpaoa became the first President of the University until October 1988. DMMMSU started with seven (7) colleges namely College of Agriculture (Bacnotan), College of Fisheries (Paraoir), College of Liberal Arts (San Fernando), College of Engineering (San Fernando), College of Arts and Sciences (Agoo), College of Fisheries (Sto. Tomas), and College of Agriculture (Rosario). In February 1989, Dr. Manuel T. Corpus, former President of Cagayan State University, succeeded the leadership. Under his administration, the University had a massive reorganization in 1994 creating autonomous units – the South La Union Campus (SLUC), the Mid La Union Campus (MLUC), the North La Union Campus (NLUC), and the Open University System (OUS). In 1999, Dr. Dionisio Gat Ducusin succeeded and was followed by Dr. Ernesto R. Gapasin in 2001. In 2011, Atty. Benjamin P. Sapitula took over the presidency and modernized the university in terms of infrastructure. The current President is Dr. Jaime I. Manuel, Jr., former Chancellor of the North La Union Campus, assumed office in February 2019.
Evolving through the years, the University has three (3) major campuses located in different towns of the province of La Union namely: the North La Union Campus in Bacnotan as the Main Campus and the seat of the Central Administration; the Mid La Union Campus and the Open University System in San Fernando City, and the South La Union Campus in Agoo including the College of Agriculture in Rosario and the College of Fisheries in Sto. Tomas. DMMMSU also has two (2) national centers – the National Apiculture Research, Training, and Development Institute (NARTDI) and the Sericulture Research and Development Institute (SRDI).
Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University has 96 academic programs offered in the different operating units/campuses broken down into ten (10) postgraduate degrees in Philosophy; 28 Master’s Degrees; 34 undergraduate degrees, seven (7) post-secondary non-degree programs, and (two) 2 basic education laboratory school programs while the Open University System offers one (1) Doctor of Philosophy degree, two (2) Master’s degrees, four (4) baccalaureate programs, and four (4) diploma/certificate programs.
Of the current 92 accreditable programs, the University has ten (10) academic programs that have been reaccredited to Level IV status by the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities of the Philippines (AACCUP). These are Bachelor of Science in Agroforestry, Bachelor of Elementary Education, and Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management programs of the North La Union Campus; Doctor of Philosophy in Technological Education Management, Master of Arts in Technology Education, and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology of the Mid-La Union Campus; and Doctor of Philosophy in Science Education, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science in Biology, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science of the South La Union Campus. Likewise, 27 programs are Level III Reaccredited, 16 are Level II Reaccredited, and 14 are Level I Accredited.
The University ranked among the top ten higher education institutions in the Philippines, as surveyed by the Commission on Higher Education in 2001. It ranked number seven among the more than a thousand private and public colleges and universities in the Philippines. Areas evaluated were faculty, student admission, library, academic offerings, research and extension.
DMMMSU was also listed in the CHED 2011-2016 Roadmap (Public Higher Education Reform) as one of the 19 Leading State Universities and Colleges in the Philippines.
The Colleges of Education were awarded Centers of Excellence/Development since 2010 while the College of Information Technology and College of Computer Science were re-accredited by the Commission on Higher Education as Centers of Development.
For the past several years, DMMMSU has produced topnotchers in national board examinations in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Agriculture, Fisheries, Agricultural Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Forestry, Teacher Education, Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, Midwifery, and Master Electrician.
The research program of the University is one of the biggest programs in Northern Luzon in terms of the number of ongoing researches undertaken and budget allocation. Its research commodities include fiber crops, fruit crops, beef and chevon, pork, orchids, bamboo, agroforestry, poultry, agricultural engineering, farming system, applied rural sociology, macroeconomics, purple yam, bananas, sericulture, and apiculture.
Extension programs of the University are anchored in commodity-based services that create an impact on the life of the clientele in terms of productivity, profitability, and services for the enhancement of local governments and non-government organizations. DMMMSU Techno Pinoy, also known as Farmers’ Information and Technology Services (FITS), has been evaluated by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) to be one of the country’s more active and functional centers.
Acknowledged for its distinct competence, expertise and resources, DMMMSU is home to a number of special projects. These include the Sericulture Research and Development Institute (SRDI), National Apiculture Research, Training and Development Institute (NARTDI), Fisheries Research and Training Institute, DMMMSU Pig Extension and Research Farm, Philippine Carabao Center, Affiliated Non-Conventional Energy Center, and Metal Crafts and Innovation Center.
At present, the University is sprawled on a 1,120 hectares, cozily splintered in its three major campuses: North La Union Campus (Bacnotan and Balaoan towns), Mid La Union Campus (San Fernando City), and the South La Union Campus (Agoo, Sto. Tomas, and Rosario towns).
