University of San Carlos

The University of San Carlos, colloquially referred to as San Carlos or Sangkarlos, is a private, Catholic, and research university administered by the Philippine Southern Province of the Society of the Divine Word in Cebu City, Philippines since 1935. It was founded originally in 1595 as Colegio de San Ildefonso, but was closed during the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries in the Philippines in 1768. The Colegio reopened in 1783 as Seminario-Colegio de San Carlos, until it separated from the seminary in 1924. The Colegio de San Carlos became a university on July 1, 1948.