THE COMMISSION on Higher Education announced on Wednesday that the Mindoro State College of Agriculture and Technology in Mindoro Oriental has been converted into a state university.

The old school will be known as Mindoro State University.

CHED said that all requirements for the conversion into a state university by virtue of Republic Act 10596 were complied with.

The commission added that MinSCAT, with campuses in the municipalities of Victoria, Calapan, and Bongabong, is the first state college in Mindoro to be converted into a state university.

“MinSCAT has successfully passed through a series of rigorous evaluations and assessments conducted by CHED until it has fully complied with the criteria for conversion in the areas of faculty qualification, libraries and laboratories, research capability, linkages and extension services, accreditation of its degree programs, and other academic policies, systems and procedures,” CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III said in a statement.

Dr. Levy Arago, president of MinSCAT, shall serve as the first president of the university.

“This long sought after conversion of MinSCAT into MinSU is the institution’s greatest stronghold to respond to the clamor of Mindoreños particularly the poor but deserving ones for the expanded program offerings at reduced cost,” Arago said.

Arago thanked all agencies and stakeholders who helped the school attain its new status.