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Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
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The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
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DOST-SEI, STRAND-N Universities Sign MOU to Advance Scientific Initiatives
In a significant display of collaboration and innovation, the MOU signing ceremony between DOST-SEI and STRAND-N universities took place on February 14, 2024, at PICC, Pasay City, Metro Manila.
MSU-TCTO Signs MOA, MOU with UiTM
In a significant gesture of furthering ties with academic institutions abroad, the University has forged two important agreements: a Memorandum of Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia (UiTM).
MSU-TCTO Climbs to 46th Spot in the AD Scientific Index 2024: A Testament to its 103 Dedicated Researchers
The Mindanao State University - Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography (MSU-TCTO) has reached a noteworthy achievement in the realm of scientific research. According to the AD Scientific Index 2024, MSU-TCTO is positioned as the 46th highest-ranked university in the Philippines.
Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
MSU-TCTO Ranks Second in AACCUP Level II Accreditation Among Top 5 Colleges and Universities with the Highest Number of Accredited Programs
MSU-TCTO Ranks Second in AACCUP Level II Accreditation Among Top 5 Colleges and Universities with the Highest Number of Accredited Programs
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension, in partnership with the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension, in partnership with the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies, successfully conducted the MSU-TCTO's OVCRE LECTURE SERIES 5 with a theme "Bridging Knowledge and Faith: Exploring Islamic and Arabic Studies in Contemporary Times" on February 27, 2025, at Marine Science Museum. This was conducted in a timely manner, coinciding with the onset of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
MSU-TCTO proudly announces the designation of Assoc. Prof. Almira A. Hadji
MSU-TCTO proudly announces the designation of Assoc. Prof. Almira A. Hadji, a faculty member of the College of Education, as the new Director of the Gender and Development Office through Special Order No. 271-OC, series of 2025.
We are proud to announce that Assoc. Prof. Nerico L. Mingoc
We are proud to announce that Assoc. Prof. Nerico L. Mingoc, a faculty member of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology, has been designated as the Acting Dean of the College. This designation is made through Special Order No. 276-OC, series of 2025.
Academic Calendar
MSU-TCTO operates under a semestral basis. Find all the important dates you need here.
Gazettes
2023, April
Nurul Iman, the new Islamic center of the University, was formally inaugurated on March 10, 2023. It is one of the University projects initiated by the current Chancellor, Prof. Mary Joyce Z. Guinto-Sali, Ph.D.
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2023, March
The Development Academy of the Philippines and MSU-TCTO signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the establishment of the DAP Field Office in Tawi Tawi on March 7, 2023 at the Sabdani Bulante Conference Room.
2023, February
The College of Islamic and Arabic Studies launched Hijab Awareness Campaign with a short activity on February 1 at the Student Center. The activity aims to promote the importance of wearing hijab and raise awareness against Islamic radicalism and extremism. Chancellor Mary Joyce Guinto-Sali and College Dean Almira Hadji graced the activity and assisted the students in the proper way of wearing the Hijab.
2023, January
Chancellor Dr. Mary Joyce Z. Guinto-Sali signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the University and the Marine Battalion Landing Team 12 to conduct “Pagsumadja: Defending Peace and Sustaining Moral Governance through Islamic Teachings,” a fellowship program among local imams and gurus of Tawi-Tawi on January 30 at the Sabdani J. Bulante Hall, Conference Room.
Annual Reports
2021
MSU-TCTO has faced the COVID-19 pandemic with resiliency and vigor despite the challenges and restrictions. The university took the opportunity to continue its efforts in improving university governance by strengthening good practices, implementing sound fiscal policies, providing smooth transition to distance learning conditions, and establishing more linkages with other institutions.
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2020
The year 2020 presented many challenges across the globe. On one side is the continued armed struggle, political and civil unrest, and religious and systemic racial discrimination while the other grapples with destruction caused by climate change-induced natural disasters and worsening economic downturn. However, topping them all is the advent of the pandemic brought by a new type of coronavirus disease now known as COVID-19. Nations trembled as it spread, infecting one individual after the other. Each country tremendously suffered as the pandemic wreaked havoc which gradually affected people of all walks of life. The pandemic swept the world and crippled each nation socially, politically and economically and one of the sectors heavily affected is the academe.
2019
The creation of the Mindanao State University (MSU) is one of the government’s responses to the so-called “Mindanao Problem” and the 1954 Congressional Committee conceptualized it as “a social laboratory for national integration” of Muslims and other ethnolinguistic cultural minorities.
2018
The Mindanao State University – Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography is an autonomous university campus of the Mindanao State University System, located at the southwestern part of the Philippines. As an academic institution, it offers quality education from pre-school to post baccalaureate degrees.
Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
Message of the Chancellor for the 2025 International Women's Day
The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 The MSU-College Entrance Test is scheduled on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the CAS Building, Sanga-Sanga Campus, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
MSU-TCTO Ranks Second in AACCUP Level II Accreditation Among Top 5 Colleges and Universities with the Highest Number of Accredited Programs
MSU-TCTO Ranks Second in AACCUP Level II Accreditation Among Top 5 Colleges and Universities with the Highest Number of Accredited Programs
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