There is no published programme list for King's College of Marbel that we can verify from a primary source. The school has no reachable website, and CHED's own profile page for it could not be opened. What is firm: CHED records it as a private higher education institution in Region XII, with 45 faculty in AY 2017-18. Everything about specific courses has to come from the registrar.
This is a shorter guide than most on this site, deliberately. King's College of Marbel, Inc. operates in Koronadal City, South Cotabato, and publishes essentially nothing about itself online. Rather than fill that gap with plausible-sounding invention, this page sets out what is actually established, why the usual sources fail here, and how to verify a course yourself before you commit money to it.
Basic facts we do hold, the address and phone number, sit on the King's College of Marbel profile.
What is confirmed
It is a recognised private higher education institution. CHED's own statistical table of private HEIs for AY 2017-18 lists King's College of Marbel under 12 - Soccsksargen, alongside St. Alexius College, Notre Dame of Marbel University, Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges and the other private HEIs in the region. CHED also maintains an institutional profile page for the school on its main site.
Its recorded size in AY 2017-18 was 45 faculty, at a 1:15 faculty to student ratio. That is what the CHED table publishes. The student-count column reads "NDS", no data submitted, for every institution in that table, so no enrolment figure can be pulled from it. Forty-five faculty places the school in the middle of the Koronadal private HEIs on that list: larger than Schola de San Jose, smaller than Notre Dame of Marbel University.
It runs basic education as well as college. Our directory record carries elementary, junior high, senior high and college flags for the Koronadal campus, with a listed phone of (083) 228 5063.
That is the whole verified set.
Why the usual sources fail here
No working website. We tested the obvious domains in September 2026 and none resolved to a live site for the school. There is no admissions page, no programme list, no fee schedule and no contact form.
CHED's profile page would not open. CHED maintains a profile page for King's College of Marbel that would normally be the authoritative source for its recognised programmes. When we tried to read it, the site returned a bot-protection challenge rather than the page. If you are on a normal browser at home, that page may well open for you: search CHED's site for the school by name and it should be the institutional profile result. It is worth trying, because a CHED profile lists recognised programmes and that is precisely what is missing everywhere else.
Directory sites are not a substitute. Several education aggregators carry programme lists for this school. We do not use them and neither should you. Aggregated listings for small Philippine colleges are frequently years out of date, copied between sites, or generated from a generic template. A wrong programme list is worse than no programme list, because it sends you to a campus expecting a course that may not run.
How to verify a course before you enrol
This procedure applies to any school that publishes nothing, not just this one. It takes two phone calls.
1. Ask the registrar for the current programme list, in writing. Not "do you offer criminology" but "please send me the list of programmes open for the coming semester." A school that is opening a programme will confirm it in writing; a school that is not will hedge.
2. Ask for the government recognition number for the exact programme you want. Every recognised degree programme in the Philippines has a CHED Certificate of Program Recognition or a government recognition number. Ask for it by programme, not by school. Institutional recognition and programme recognition are different things, and it is the programme-level one that matters.
3. Confirm it with the CHED regional office covering Region XII. A five-minute call. Ask whether the programme is currently recognised and whether there are any pending closure or phase-out orders against it.
4. If the programme leads to a board exam, check the PRC angle too. PRC publishes board results by school of graduation. Ask the dean directly for first-taker passing rates for the last three sittings, and check them against the national figures in board exam passing rates by course.
The stakes here are concrete. A programme without recognition cannot issue a Special Order, and without a Special Order your graduation and your PRC eligibility both become problems, usually discovered in your final year. Our guide to CHED-accredited schools explains how recognition, accreditation and autonomy differ, because the three are routinely confused.
What else to ask on the visit
Since nothing is online, the campus visit is the research. Go with a list.
- Which programmes are open this semester, and which have enough enrolled students to actually run. Small colleges advertise programmes that do not open in a given year.
- For any teacher education programme, which majors run. BSED is always taken with a major, and the major decides what you can teach.
- Tuition and miscellaneous fees in writing, per semester or per year, stated clearly as one or the other.
- What instalment schemes exist and what they add to the total.
- Whether the school participates in ESC for junior high and the senior high voucher programme, and what its DepEd permit or recognition covers at each level.
- What scholarships exist, what they cover as a percentage, and what GPA maintains them.
- Faculty numbers for the specific programme, and how many hold a master's in the field.
Our college admission requirements guide covers the documents you will need to bring regardless of what the school asks for.
How it sits against the other private HEIs in the region
The one comparative dataset that does exist for this school is CHED's AY 2017-18 faculty table. Here is the Region XII block as CHED published it, faculty counts only, since the student column is blank for every institution.
| Private HEI, Region XII | Faculty (AY 2017-18) |
|---|---|
| Notre Dame of Dadiangas University | 188 |
| Gensantos Foundation College | 129 |
| Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges | 129 |
| Notre Dame of Marbel University | 110 |
| St. Alexius College | 76 |
| Holy Trinity College of General Santos City | 69 |
| Mindanao Polytechnic College | 51 |
| King's College of Marbel | 45 |
| Edenton Mission College | 44 |
| Schola de San Jose | 16 |
That places King's College of Marbel in the middle of the regional field, and squarely in the second tier of Koronadal institutions behind Notre Dame of Marbel University. Forty-five faculty across a school that also runs basic education is a small college, which is worth factoring in: a small tertiary faculty means fewer programmes running in parallel, and a higher chance that an advertised programme does not open in a given year for want of enrolment.
The data is eight years old. Treat it as an order-of-magnitude signal about the school's scale, not a current figure.
Marbel and Koronadal are the same place
Worth clearing up because it affects your search. Marbel is the former name of what is now Koronadal City, the capital of South Cotabato in the SOCCSKSARGEN region. Institutions founded before the renaming often kept it, which is why the city has a King's College of Marbel, a Notre Dame of Marbel University, an ACLC College of Marbel and a Marbel School of Science and Technology. Searching either name finds the same city.
That also means you have genuine local alternatives to compare against. Koronadal supports several private HEIs and at least one university, so a school that publishes nothing is competing with schools that do. Use that. Ask King's College of Marbel the same questions you would ask a school with a full website, and treat an unwillingness to answer them in writing as information in itself.
For what else is available locally, see the Koronadal school listings, and for how the levels fit together nationally, the Philippine education system guide.
Sources
- CHED, "Table 11. Private Higher Education Institutions Faculty-Student Ratio: AY 2017-18", legacy.ched.gov.ph — read directly, King's College of Marbel listed under 12 - Soccsksargen
- CHED institutional profile page for King's College of Marbel, ched.gov.ph — exists, returned a bot-protection challenge rather than page content when accessed in September 2026
- SchoolFinderPH directory record for King's College of Marbel, Inc.
- Domain checks on several plausible school domains, September 2026: none resolved to a live site
No school-published source exists for this institution's programme list. Nothing on this page should be treated as a substitute for confirmation from the registrar.
