Cebu Doctors' University

Cebu Doctors' University, abbreviated as CDU, is a private university located in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines.Founded in 1975 at Cebu City as Cebu Doctors' College (CDC), the school was formally renamed in 2005 as Cebu Doctors' University (CDU). It is organized into eight colleges, a Graduate school, and as of 2016, a Senior High school (Grades 11 and 12).Cebu Doctors' University consistently ranks among the top and prestigious medical universities in the Philippines based on the National Licensure Examinations.It is the only institution in the Philippines granted a University Status without having basic education curriculum and catering mainly to courses related to the health services field. It is the first non-sectarian university in the Visayas to be granted the Autonomous Status, the highest status a university can get from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).Historical BriefCebu Doctors' University was organized in 1975 as Cebu Doctors' College and was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1976.Its first campus was located adjacent to the present Cebu Doctors' University Hospital.Cebu Doctors' College of Nursing (now CDU-CN), one of the first nursing colleges in Cebu, was the first College to open in 1973. Subsequently, the following colleges opened: in 1975, the Cebu Doctors' College of Arts and Sciences (now CDU-CAS); in 1977, the Cebu Doctors' College of Medicine (now CDU-CM), a non-stock, non-profit medical foundation; in 1980, the Cebu Doctors' College of Dentistry (now CDU-CD), the Cebu Doctors' College of Optometry (now CDU-CO), and the Graduate School; and in 1982, the Cebu Doctors' Institute of Allied Medical Sciences (CDIAMS) which was later renamed Cebu Doctors' College of Allied Medical Sciences (now CDU-CAMS). In 1992, It was reconstructed creating therefrom a separate college, the Cebu Doctors' College of Rehabilitative Sciences (now CDU-CRS). In 2004, the Cebu Doctors' University College of Pharmacy (CDU-CP) was established. And in 2016, the Cebu Doctors' University Senior High School (CDU-SHS) was set up under the CDU-CAS.