The University of San Carlos (USC or colloquially shortened to San Carlos) is a private Catholic university in Cebu City which is administered and managed by the Society of the Divine Word since 1935. It offers a Montessori preparatory academy, Basic Education, 80 Undergraduate, and 85 Graduate programs, with a broad spectrum of academic disciplines through its 8 Schools and 27 Academic Departments.
USC has been considered as the de facto premier university in Cebu. It is ranked top five (5) nationwide and top one (1) in the Visayas and Mindanao with the most number of Centers of Excellence (7 COEs) and Centers of Development (12 CODs) awarded and recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as of December 2015. USC is also one of the top 10 leading universities in the country ranked by the International/World Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rating among the top 300 universities in Asia as of 2014 (USC is the lone Cebu based university and one of the 2 universities in the Visayas regions that were cited as among internationally recognized and world class universities in the Philippines).



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