Wesleyan University Philippines
Private educational institution in Cabanatuan City, Philippines
Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P) is a private, Protestant, non-sectarian, and non-profit higher education institution run by the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. It was founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College and named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.
The university offers preschool, grade school, high school undergraduate, and graduate programs. In 2009. the university was granted autonomy status by the Commission on Higher Education.
History
The university was conceived by a group of Filipino and American Methodists led by the late Rev. Carlos Mañacop Sr. as part of the realization of their ecclesiastic mission. It was founded on July 1, 1946, and was named Philippine Wesleyan College. It was incorporated on April 28, 1948.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7984071. VIAF identifies the subject as 187413571. The Library of Congress control number is no2011159157. Authority coordinates are 15.484, 120.976. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 2009 and 1948.
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