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MMSU celebrates 47 years of excellence, innovation, global impact

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City of Batac—The Ilocos Region’s leading educational institution, Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), celebrated its 47th founding anniversary in a month-long celebration in January 2025 with the theme “Cultivating Minds, Transforming Futures.”

To kick off the celebration, MMSU held a motorcade at dawn on January 6, the university's founding day, parading through the Batac to Paoay route. This was followed by the opening of the Trade Fair and Garden Show at the InnoTech Grounds.

“The 47th year of MMSU reflects our commitment and dedication to shaping minds and transforming lives,” the university officer-in-charge President Dr. Prima Fe R. Franco told the university community during the opening ceremony.

During the month-long celebration, bloodletting, a national research and development call with the Department of Science and Technology, a motorcade of topnotchers and passers of licensure and bar examinations, and business pitching were among the activities.

With the increase in MMSU students and employees engaging internationally, the university featured their experiences through roundtable discussions to inspire the community to engage with such opportunities through the Academic and Professional Journey Across Cultures events.

One notable feature of the university’s foundation anniversary celebration is a victory concert of Nasudi Chorale, MMSU’s homegrown award-winning choir, which won the Sacred Choral Music Acapella Open Category at the 13th World Choir Games in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2024.

MMSU also held its 2nd MMSU Film Festival, featuring award-winning films and alumni stories produced by students and employees. It also premiered the “Arsi,” a biographical documentary film of its alumnus and the National Economic and Development Authority Secretary Arsenio Balisacan.

Moreover, alumni day, theater play, awarding ceremony for student and employee achievers, retirees’ day, stakeholders’ forum, and alumni success stories sharing were held as part of the foundation anniversary celebration.

As MMSU looks back on its milestones in 2024, Franco highlighted during the University Convocation that the university continuously performs well in national licensure examinations, with high passing rates and many topnotchers.

“It reflects both the quality of MMSU graduates and the effectiveness of our curriculum,” Dr. Franco remarked.

In 2024, MMSU produced 12 topnotchers in teacher education, food technology, civil engineering, nursing, chemical engineering, and electronics technician. Dee Vanna Galacgac is the leading topnotcher, as she ranked first in the August 2024 Food Technologist Licensure Examination.

She also mentioned the achievements of various goals in research, production, administration, infrastructure, and internalization.

MMSU attributes its achievements to its former seven university presidents and administrators who molded the university, such as its immediate past president Dr. Shirley Agrupis, now a commissioner at the Commission on Higher Education.

As the university prepares to welcome its eighth president in the upcoming weeks, Franco said MMSU will continue moving forward with confidence and purpose.

“With the solid foundation laid by those who came before us and the collective strength of the MMSU community, I am confident we will achieve even more remarkable milestones,” she stressed.

The month-long celebration culminated through the Students’ Day and concert, featuring Ilocano and Filipino Artists, including alternative band The Ridleys, Unique Salonga, Magrus, Limitlezz, Vintage Core, Lavenders, and Tihtus.

MMSU was founded on January 6, 1978 through Presidential Decree No. 1279, issued by then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr..

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global higher education network, rates the university four stars out of five. (Edmar Delos Santos)

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