Why Silliman for Senior High? In the comforts of a campus named one of the world’s most beautiful, under programs touted as among the country’s best, with student services and facilities ranked as the region’s finest… you “experience college in senior high school.” In Silliman, our students in the Senior High do not just ask: “What do I want to become?” They find answers to a question that resonates with an inherent characteristic to serve and lead a life of impact: “What — with what I have and who I am — can I share with the community the most?”Our role in Silliman is to help build that bridge to get our students to know themselves better in relation to others. To empower and capacitate them. To develop that value-added and social conscience. To journey with them in establishing careers either through college or straight to the real world of work after Senior High.

Senior High in Silliman University is among the first in the Philippines to have developed a comprehensive implementation framework. Its strength and quality are evidenced by Silliman being a training institution for public school teachers under the Department of Education. Its rigid and proactive strategies for rolling out the Senior High program infuse more than the basic requirements of the K+12 reform; it looks further ahead into implications on the country’s higher education landscape beyond K+12. This, and the University’s continuing pursuit to find a balance between preparations for K+12 implementation and ASEAN 2015 integration, has stirred great interest in international associations of higher education institutions.

In developing our programs, we also draw on distinctions granted by the Commission on Higher Education: Full Autonomous Status (highest distinction), Center of Excellence in Education and Nursing and Center of Development in Accountancy, Anthropology, Biology and Information Technology; and Level IV accreditation (highest) granted by the Federation of Accrediting Agencies in the Philippines.