The Manila Central University, or MCU, formerly known as the Escuela de Farmacia del Liceo de Manila) is a private, non-sectarian, non-stock educational institution situated on EDSA, Caloocan, Philippines. It was founded and first directed in 1904 by Dr. Alejandro M. Albert. MCU is the first Pharmacy school run by Filipinos, and the first Nursing school that offered the 4-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in the Philippines. Given its Level I accreditation status by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU), an external body that checks the quality standards of universities, the college continues to provide word class, advanced, and safe quality education. 

From the traditional ways of examining the cadavers into using high technology 3D dissection table called the Anatomage specifically acquired to ensure the safety of students in the new normal without sacrificing the teaching and learning quality Our college also has its our own base hospital where all clinical clerkships are conducted. Our students will have the opportunity to experience to be trained in a real clinical set up in a tertiary hospital before they face the real world of being a physician. 

University History 

In 1903, at the request of several students from the University of Santo Tomas and others, Dr. Alejandro M. Albert organized a private review class. The review class developed into the Escuela de Farmacia del Liceo de Manila in 1904, with Dr. Albert as the founder and director. Later on, due to the steady increase in enrollment, it was transformed into the Manila College of Pharmacy, with Dr. Leon Ma. L. Guerrero, Antonio C. Llamas, Feliciano P. Paterno and Atty. Filemon D. Tanchoco Sr. as the incorporators. 

It was the first educational institution of its kind established and managed by Filipinos. Its initial organization was barely four years after the establishment of the Philippine education system. In 1929 its board of trustees, answering a long-felt need for the training of the youth for dental services, opened the college of Dentistry. 

Manila College of Pharmacy became then the Manila College of Pharmacy and Dentistry in the pre-war era. Second World War closed its portals in 1941. During the Japanese occupation, the enemy looted its facilities, laboratory, equipment, and museums. During the liberation period, it was further looted of everything but the shell of its two buildings. After the liberation of the Philippines, the Board of Trustees reorganized the college into Manila Central Colleges. 

In addition to Pharmacy and Dentistry, the reorganized institution offered courses in liberal arts, education, commerce, business administration and postgraduate courses in pharmacy. In 1947, the College of Medicine was added. In 1948, it became the Manila Central University after opening the College of Nursing and Graduate School. In 1949, the MCU inaugurated its 10-hectare campus in Caloocan. The colleges of Optometry and Midwifery, and the High School and Kindergarten departments were opened. The university's varsity team Tigers competed in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines from 1952 to 1962. MCU's best finish in the centerpiece Seniors Basketball was runner-up to University of the East in 1958. 

University Vision & Mission Statement 

We are a community of men and women dedicated to work together and support one another in wisdom and knowledge with the mission to graduate competent and morally upright physicians who are: 

• Equipped with proper understanding of essential habits, attitudes and professional ethics 

• Provided with requisite basic knowledge and skills in medical practice, research and post graduate studies. 

• Committed to improve the community health care system and respond to national aspirations and global challenges. Realizing that in the process, the development of the individual's full potential is achieved thus contributing to the growth of the institution.