| University of the Visayas | |
| Native Name: | Pamantasan sa Bisayas |
| Former Names: | Visayan Institute (1919–1948) |
| Motto: | Latin: Amor, Servitium, Humanitas (Latin) |
| Mottoeng: | Love, Service to Humanity |
| Type: | Private, Research university, Coeducational, Basic and Higher education institution |
| Established: | 1919 |
| Founder: | Vicente A. Gullas |
| Academic Affiliations: | PACUCOA |
| President: | Dr. Condrado E. Iñigo, Jr. |
| Head Label: | Emeritus |
| Head: | Eduardo R. Gullas, Sr. |
| Students: | 35,000 (Main campus) 20,000 (Satellite campuses) |
| City: | Corner Colon and D. Jakosalem Streets, Cebu City |
| Province: | 6000 Cebu |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Coordinates: | 10.2985°N 123.9012°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Visayas#Philippines |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Visayas##Location in the Philippines |
| Campus: | Main campus: Downtown Cebu City Satellite campuses: Pob. Pardo, Cebu City Banilad, Mandaue City Cambaro, Mandaue City Toledo City Danao City Dalaguete, Cebu Minglanilla, Cebu Compostela, Cebu |
| Free Label: | Alma Mater Song |
| Free: | Green and White March |
| Colors: | and |
| Sporting Affiliations: | CESAFI |
| Mascot: | Green Lancers |
The University of the Visayas (UV) is a private institution located in Cebu City, Philippines. It is the first school in the province of Cebu to attain university status.[1]
Vicente Gullas (1898–1970) founded the University of the Visayas in 1919 aiming to educate young people from average-income families. It was initially called the Visayan Institute, and occupied two rooms rented at the City Intermediate School. The number of students had increased from 37 in 1919 to 87 in 1920, and kept growing, but Gullas could not find a permanent building for the institute and kept moving over various locations in Cebu, borrowing auxiliary facilities from other schools nearby, such as physical education grounds of the Cebu Normal School and the public library near Fuente Osmeña. Finally, in 1946 the institute moved to its present site at Colon Street, and in 1948 received the university status.
In the 1980s–90s, the university added new master's degrees, in education, engineering, maritime studies, criminology and nursing. In 1994, four of the university programs were recognised by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation. Earlier in 1994 the Gullas Medical Center and the College of Medicine were opened in Banilad.
The university has nine campuses:
The College of Dentistry and Nursing is located in a separate campus in Banilad, Mandaue City at the site of Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital and the Gullas College of Medicine. The Gullas College of Medicine Mandaue Campus (formerly Mandaue Academy) is located in downtown Cambaro, Mandaue City.