The Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) was created under RA 8547 on February 24, 1998, authored by Congressman and signed into law by President Fidel V. Ramos. It is a seven-campus institution of higher learning with its main campus in San Antonio, City of Candon, Ilocos Sur. The six other campuses of ISPSC were in Darapidap, City of Candon and the municipalities of Narvacan, Sta. Maria, Santiago, Tagudin, and Cervantes, in the second district of Ilocos Sur.

VISION

UIP 2030: A smart globally competitive and responsive state university.

MISSION

UIP is commited to producing globally competent and virtues human resources, generating advanced knowledge, and developing innovative technologies for the sustainable development of society.

CORE VALUES

I - INNOVATIVENESS

M - MOTIVATION

P - PROFESSIONALISM

E - EXCELLENCE

T - TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

U - UNITY AND TEAMWORK

S - SUSTAINABILITY

DEVELOPMENT GOALS:

Optimize institutional quality and reputation.

Nurture excellence in academics and services.

Widen research, development, and inno

ISPSC is a government-owned State College mandated to provide education in the area of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, arts and trades, commercial and social services, information technology and engineering, and hotel and restaurant management.

ISPSC's strategic direction is to become a premier state college in the country that is strong and research and extension envisioned to produce students who are board topnotchers and achieve 100 percent passing rate in the National Competency Assessment.

We commit to achieve this by strengthening and effectively implementing our values 'PRAISE' through our quality Management System. QMS

• Productivity - we “work smart” by optimizing the use of resources as input to our processes and turn them into a greater and value-adding output for our student and internal clients.
  

• Resiliency - we utilize our skills and strengths to overcome challenges in order to deliver client’s expectations.

• Accountability - ISPSC and its employees are one in delivering our commitment to meet business needs through imparting the required knowledge to our students.

• Ingenuity - we use our inventive skills to provide a cost-effective solution to our day to day challenges.

• Synergy - we drive excellence through the spirit of teamwork within our organization and continuing collaboration with all partner agencies, sponsors and stakeholders, parents, alumni and communities.

• Excellence - we “think global but we act local” striving to have a global orientation, borderless perspective, equal opportunities, empowerment, and transformation, multi-tasking and leading by example.