After going through a stringent auditing process, Visayas State University is now ISO 9001 certified.

VSU alumna Dimple A. Durias has become one of the faces for the ‘Youth for Mechanization’, a social media advocacy segment by The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech). The program aims to become a platform for youth across the country to share their ideas on rice production.

VSU students and alumni organized an initiative to raise funds to produce alternative personal protective equipment for frontliners and other vulnerable groups.

To help cushion the blow of halting the economy because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the local government unit of Baybay City partnered with VSU to train women on meat and poultry processing that could serve as an alternative income source.

VSU alumna and biotech faculty Ea Kristine Clarisse B. Tulin has become a face for women in STEM on various social media pages.

Visayas State University earned an institutional rating of 3 Stars from Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specializing in analyzing higher education institutions worldwide. VSU received the QS certificate on Friday, May 8, 2020.

On March 13 this year,  the University Administrative Council convened to suspend classes and order a work from home scheme for all VSU campuses amid the #COVID-19 pandemic. VSU President Edgardo E. Tulin already laid out some plans and strategic actions that will help protect the VSU community from the spread of the virus while also ensuring the welfare and providing basic needs of stranded students, frontliners and our people.