Nueva Vizcaya State University, Bambang

Nueva Vizcaya State University was formed by merging two institutions: the Nueva Vizcaya State Institute of Technology at Bayombong and the Nueva Vizcaya State Polytechnic College at Bambang. This record is the Bambang half. Its lineage begins with Bambang High School, which was converted into the Nueva Vizcaya School of Arts and Trades on 22 June 1957. In 1961 the school received assistance under New Zealand's Colombo Plan programme to improve its workshop facilities, equipment and faculty, an intervention that shaped its technical capacity for decades afterwards. It later became the Nueva Vizcaya State Polytechnic College, occupying roughly 14.21 hectares in Bambang, the province's centre of trade and commerce. The university's College of Industrial Technology traces directly to the trade technical course of the original arts and trades school, so the technical orientation of the Bambang campus is a continuous line rather than a later addition. CHED currently lists 36 recognised programmes at this campus — 36 bachelor's — concentrated in arts and sciences, teacher education and engineering. Programme recognition changes over time, so confirm the current offering with the campus registrar.