Assumption College is located in San Lorenzo Drive, San Lorenzo Village, Makati City with website address www.assumption.edu.ph

From the board rooms of the power-packed business enclaves to the editing rooms of film making, from hospital clinics to newsrooms, from the heated domain of politics to the very halls of Malacañang, Assumptionists are making a difference and trying to make the world a better place for all of us in the process.

"Women of faith. Women of action." This has always been the defining mark of Assumptionists.

The "renewed Assumption College" that is now taking over the task of educating today’s achievers into tomorrow’s leaders is molding its students by arming them "with the knowledge, attitude, values and skills that will enable them to effect for others a quality of life geared towards equity, productivity, empowerment and sustainability."

These students have a proud tradition to uphold. Consider these names: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, former President Corazon Aquino, former Senator Loren Legarda Leviste, Sen. Tessie Aquino-Oreta, humanitarian Gina de Venecia, Assumption Alumnae Association president Judy Araneta Roxas of the Araneta Group of Companies, film director and Nobel prize nominee Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Boots Anson-Roa, internationally acclaimed filmmaker Monina Diaz, restaurateur Margarita Fores, Philippine Anti-Graft commissioner Tessie Baltazar, Eleanore Roosevelt awardee Marietta Primicias Goco, chief Clinical Psychologist Dr. Teresa Villasor, ABS-CBN’s Bantay Bata Foundation founder Gina Lopez, SM Inc. president and Banco de Oro Universal Bank chairperson Teresita Sy-Coson, RCBC’s Marie Vivian Yuchengco Locsin. Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) President, C.B. Garrucho and her sister, Charito Nañagas, a partner at accounting firm Price Waterhouse, Tingting Cojuangco, Sofia Zobel-Elizalde, and a whole line of Prieto women starting with PDI’s CEO Marixi Prieto and president, Sandy Prieto Romuladez. Assumptionists all. Through their work, these women have indeed transformed our society and the world.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

The Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption was founded by Blessed Marie Eugenie Milleret de Brou in Paris, France on April 30, 1839. She founded the Religious of the Assumption at the age of 22, a young woman of bold faith, open to the needs of her time and oriented towards the future. She dreamt of a profound transformation of society by means of evangelization through education.

The Religious of the Assumption came to the Philippines in 1892 at the request of Queen Maria Cristina of Spain. They established the Superior Normal School for Women Teachers in Intramuros in 1893. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1898, the school was closed and after the cessation of hostilities, the Sisters were expatriated and returned to Europe.

In 1904, a group of English-speaking Sisters, with Mother Helene Marguerite as Superior, arrived to re-open the school, not as a teacher-training institution, but as an elementary and a secondary school in Herran-Dakota, Malate. A College Department was added in 1940.

The Convent and the school burned down during the Liberation of Manila in 1945. In 1947, Mother Rosa Maria, assisted by Mother Esperanza, courageously began construction and the College re-opened in 1948.

In 1910, the Assumption School in Iloilo City was established.

With an increasing student population on all levels, another Assumption School was built in San Lorenzo, Makati, in 1958. The College moved there in 1959.

In 1973, the schools in Herran and San Lorenzo were fused. The High School Department and the College Department were based in San Lorenzo while the Grade School Department occupied Herran. In 1974, with Malate fast becoming a commercial center, the Herran property was sold and the Grade School moved to Antipolo, along Sumulong Highway.

In 1980, the Assumption in the Philippines sent a group of Sisters to establish a new mission post in Thailand.

Today, the San Lorenzo campus consists of a Basic Education Division composed of a Grade School and High School and a Higher Education Division composed of the College and the Graduate School. Assumption College in San Lorenzo is the only Assumption school offering tertiary education in the Philippines and internationally. It occupies a unique position in the apostolate of the Religious of the Assumption.

In line with the spirit of Vatican II and in response to the call of the Church in the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines, as well as the needs of the country, the Assumption in the Philippines has been moving towards serving the rural areas and the underprivileged sectors of the population.

The work of evangelization of the Religious of the Assumption extends worldwide: with the pygmies of the Cameroun, under the tent of Nigerian Touaregs, in the ruins of Managua, with the Indians of the Guatemalan mountains, in the slums of Brazil and among the country people of Argentina. In each of the 71 countries across four continents wherein they work, the meaning of their presence is the same: to unite with the same contemplative love, both God and men, to proclaim Jesus Christ as the Man who will, in His turn, create the new tomorrow. They contemplate Mary, through whose person the glory of God breaks forth, in the mystery of the Assumption.

Wherever the Assumption is, her main apostolate is education, formal as well as non-formal, her gaze "fixed on Jesus Christ and the extension of His Kingdom" as her Foundress, Marie Eugenie Milleret, willed it – "fixed on Him who alone frees and transforms society."

PRESENT TIMES

The goal of education at the Assumption is an integrated development of the girls’ personalities. It combines rigorous studies with a profoundly Christian orientation…It is necessary to make the mind as Christian as the heart, to enlighten the spirit in order to attach the will more strongly to good, and to strengthen the faith."

These words of the foundress of the Assumption, Blessed Marie Eugénie Milleret de Brou, encapsulate what Assumption education strives for. Throughout its pre-school to graduate school divisions, Assumption education aims to educate students and instill in them love for God, steadfast characters, and developed intelligence capable of making a relevant response to the needs of society.

Assumption College continues its tradition of successfully providing relevant quality education based on a solid academic and faith foundation. It is committed to forming young women rooted in the faith and impelled by a passion to render genuine service wherever they may be.

Today, globalization and the challenges of the millennium and technology are continuously addressed by the College Department. Assumption College consistently adopts a provocative, pace setting stance with new courses and dynamic programs. The Graduate School was opened in 1997, offering Masteral programs in Education and Psychology.

A Master Plan conceived in 1999 to fully utilize the 3.2 hectares in San Lorenzo Village is being implemented. Its purpose is to transform the campus into a logical, coherent environment that educates as well as fulfills the three pillars of Assumption education.

The first pillar, Academic Excellence, requires facilities that are cutting edge and innovative. In the recent past, the Therese Emmanuel Building was inaugurated which houses the Mother Rosario Learning Resource Center, an Internet access center called the Cyber Nook, the AV Prieto Hall which seats 90 and a larger Multi-Purpose Hall with a capacity of 300 in addition to classrooms and four computer laboratories. The Milleret Hall-BED Wing has two floors and houses for Basic Education, the Kinder Classrooms with an Outdoor Garden and Playground, the new BED Clinic, Guidance Center and Faculty Room, the Biology and Chemistry Laboratories, and Computer rooms.

Just before the end of last school year, the newly modernized Mother Rose Auditorium was inaugurated. Its renovation was spearheaded by the Assumption Alumnae Association (AAA). It is now a 1,000 seat air-conditioned theater, which will be the main venue of the artistic programs of the Marie Eugenie Theater of the Assumption or METTA. METTA will create a school within a campus that integrates holistically all pillars of Assumption Education.

Currently under construction is a multilevel sports complex, consisting of dance studios, swimming pool, basketball courts, and PE session halls.

The second pillar of Assumption Education is Faith and Spirituality, which is enhanced by creating an atmosphere that helps the Assumption Community connect and experience God. A strong CLE and Theology program is supported by an active campus ministry that includes yearly retreats, regular masses, and other spiritual activities.

The third pillar of Assumption education is Social Responsibility which is developed by providing students with a space to interact and experience deeper levels of relationships with less advantaged communities through outreach, service learning and advocacy projects in partnership with urban poor extension communities in Manila and various mission schools.