Quezon City University
Quezon City University (QCU), formerly known as Quezon City Polytechnic University (QCPU), is a city government-funded university in Quezon City, Philippines. It was established on March 1, 1994, as the Quezon City Polytechnic, offering technical and vocational courses. It was renamed as Quezon City Polytechnic University when it was elevated into university status in 2001. Twenty years later in 2021, QCPU was renamed Quezon City University. History In 1988, the Quezon City Council passed an ordinance to create a technical committee that conducted a series of studies on the establishment of a Quezon City Polytechnic University. The committee was composed of Quezon City officials—with QC mayor as the chairman, QC vice mayor as the co-chairman, QC chairman of the Committee on Education as the vice chairman; while the QC treasurer, the director of the Bureau of Higher Education (Department of Education, Culture and Sports), a former University of the Philippines president, representatives from Pamantan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Technological University of the Philippines and Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and four members of the City Council were part of the technical committee as members. As a result of the studies and to kick-off the establishment of Quezon City's local university,