Information About Dumaguete City
Dumaguete City is in Negros Oriental, Philippines. Dumaguete City is refered to as a University Town because of the presence of four universities and colleges in a small city. The province has a high simple literacy rate of 93.9% as of 2000 and 83.8% functional literacy rate as of 2000. The city is also a popular educational destination for students of surrounding provinces and cities in Visayas and Mindanao. The city’s ambience and tranquil, moderate way of life make it conducive to learning.
Silliman University is the dominant institution of higher learning in Dumaguete, providing the city with a distinct university town atmosphere. It is the first Protestant university in the country and the first American private university in Asia. The 610,000 m² campus is adjacent to and intermixed with the city’s downtown district. It is the 4th top performing school in the Philippines, and 2nd if the University of the Philippines System is taken as one, according to a survey conducted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). It is ranked among the top 150 universities in Asia in International Students’ Review by the QS Quacquarelli Symonds, an institution that ranks the world’s top universities. Silliman University composed of local and international students.
Aside from Silliman the city is also the home of several other universities and colleges like Foundation University, St. Paul’s University, Negros Oriental State University and colleges like AMA, STI, ACSAT, Negros Maritime College Foundation Inc. and COSCA. Because of this, Dumaguete City’s outsourcing industry is growing, vastly diversified with services ranging from call centers, publishing, medical transcription, animation, editing, architectural outsourcing and many more. Dumaguete City is becoming one of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Techology (IT) hubs of the Philippines.
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