Visayas State University (VSU) hit the highest mark possible for any institution in the area of intellectual property (IP) creation, protection, and commercialization, as it garnered the 2026 Platinum Award from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) in the recently concluded Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) President’s Summit and General Assembly on March 25, 2026 at Iloilo Convention Center.

The Visayas State University (VSU) continues to rise in the national research landscape after several of its faculty researchers were inducted into the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), reflecting the university’s robust research ecosystem following the Scopus indexing of Annals of Tropical Research (ATR) last year.

With the spike in oil prices due to tensions in the Middle East, Visayas State University (VSU) is changing how the campus is run to save energy and control costs.

Visayas State University remains one of the Philippines’ leading higher education institutions after ranking first in Eastern Visayas and earning the 19th spot among the top 100 universities in the Philippines, according to international rankings platform, EduRank, as of March 15, 2026.

For the Visayas State University (VSU) forestry team, the journey through the 15th National Forestry Olympiad was not simply a test of technical knowledge—it was a measure of resilience, preparation, and teamwork. 

Undeterred by distance, the Visayas State University-Admissions Office (VSU-AdO) has recently been going around island communities in the Visayas in an effort to make quality higher education accessible to even remote barangays. 

Visayas State University (VSU) once more affirmed its stature as a financially compliant higher education institution (HEI) at the annual Agency Performance Review (APR) for Fiscal Year 2025, held on March 3, 2026, at the D Pavilion in Tacloban City, bringing home not just one, but two significant recognitions.