Teacher Training (1948-1968)
1948
More collegiate courses were opened: Elementary Teacher's Certificate (E.T.C. - General); E.T.C. - Home Economics (H.E.); three years E.T.C. - Combined; four years Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.E.); two years Associates in Arts (A.A.); and six months Stenography - Typing course, thus making St. Paul College of Tuguegarao one among the first Teacher - Training Institutions in Cagayan Valley.
1949
The first semi-concrete building was inaugurated and the school assumed the name, St. Paul College of Tuguegarao (SPCT).
The first E.T.C. graduates were one male and twelve female future teachers.
1951
The first graduates in E.T.C. combined with Home Economics (E.T.C. - H.E.) numbered four.
1952
The Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (B.S.E.Ed) program was opened.
The Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.E.) program was given government recognition with the graduation of eleven students.
1954
The Liberal Arts (A.B.) program was given government recognition with the graduation of one student.
Elementary Education graduated two, thus earning government recognition of the B.S.E.Ed program.
The Commerce program was opened with a two-year Associate in Commercial Science Certificate (A.C.S.) course.
1956
The Secretarial Course was opened offering a one-year certificate program.
1957
SPCT celebrated its golden (50th) jubilee.
1961
SPCT applied for accreditation to the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU).
1962
Following the PAASCU pre-survey, Level I status was granted to the degree programs in Education, Liberal Arts and Commerce.
1965
January 18, at high noon, a fire broke out reducing to ashes the entire school building complex. The SPC community and student body took refuge at the then vacant Ateneo grounds where academic life was resumed until the reconstruction of new buildings was completed. December 19, exactly eleven months later, the Paulinian family was back in its homegrounds with the near completion of the St. Paul building for the college department and temporary structures built on the foundation left by the fire for the elementary and high school classrooms.
The Secretarial program started to offer a two-year Diploma in Secretarial Science (DSS).
1966
The last two years in commerce was approved leading to a Bachelor of Science in Commercial Science (BSC) degree.
1967
The tradition of having only women in the college department gave way to the admission of male college students.
1968
The formal PAASCU survey that did not take place in 1965 because of the fire finally materialized and earned for SPCT, Level II accredited status for its programs in Education, Liberal Arts and Commerce, making SPCT the only school in Cagayan Valley with accredited college programs.