Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College - Sta. Maria Campus

Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College - Santa Maria Campus is a public state college campus in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur. Its origins go back to 1913, when it began as a farm school that later became the Santa Maria Agricultural High School. The school was converted into the Ilocos Sur Agricultural College in 1963 and became part of the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College system in 1995. Today the Santa Maria campus is organized into the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Engineering, the Institute of Hospitality Management, the College of Teacher Education, and the Institute of Computing Studies, offering undergraduate programs in engineering, elementary and secondary education, agriculture, forestry, information technology, and hotel and restaurant management, as well as graduate programs in education and agriculture. The campus also operates a Laboratory High School covering junior high school. As a state college, tuition for qualified Filipino undergraduate students is free under RA 10931.