St. Scholastica's College Manila

What does St. Scholastica's College Manila stand for?

St. Scholastica’s College Manila (SSC Manila) is a Catholic Women’s College founded in 1906 by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Germany. It offers holistic Benedictine education for Basic Education, College, and Graduate levels, with its School of Music being recognized by CHED as a Center of Excellence for Music Education.

The following programs are open for male applicants:
Senior High School- Visual Arts and Design Track, Music Performance Track
College Unit - BS Hospitality Management (with specializations in Culinary Arts and Kitchen Management, or Hotel and Restaurant Administration),  BS Tourism Management, BS in Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, All Programs in the School of Music

A Brief History of SSC Manila
The history of St. Scholastica's College Manila began when the first five German Sisters of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing arrived in the Philippines. 

With the spirit of faith and a burning zeal for missionary service, the five Benedictine sisters led by Mother Ferdinanda Hoelzer as Sister Prioress together with Sister Petronilla Keller, Crescentia Veser, Winfrieda Mueller, and novice Alexia Ruedenauer, embraced their mission of nourishing the Catholic faith through God’s word.

On the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, August 15, 1906, they boarded the German S.S. Gneisenau in Genoa for their voyage. They docked in Hong Kong and transferred to the Chinese ship S.S. Tean, which brought them to their destination. They arrived in the Philippines on September 14, 1906,  the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross

Three months after, on December 3, 1906, the first school opened in Moriones, Tondo.  Back then it was only a windowless wagon-shed school with a total enrollment of 58 children. 

In 1907, Sister Baptista Battig, OSB, brought fame to St. Scholastica’s College when she opened the Conservatory of Music. A pupil of the great musician, Ludwig Deppe, in Berlin, Sister Baptista was a concertist before her entrance into the convent. It can be said with pride that Sister Baptista pioneered formal music education in the Philippines.

The increasing number of students necessitated a larger place thus within a year of opening the first school, the Most Rev. Jeremias Harty, the then Archbishop of Manila, offered the Sisters a lot in San Marcelino Street. Thus, on the eve of Christmas in 1907, the Sisters moved from Moriones Street to their new home on San Marcelino.

Year after year, St. Scholastica’s College was blessed with increasing enrollment. Seven years after they moved to San Marcelino, on December 24, 1914, the sisters together with their student boarders, moved to 1532 Pennsylvania Avenue - which is now known as 2560 Leon Guinto Street.

St. Scholastica’s College Manila Today
At present, St. Scholastica’s College, Manila stands proudly among the most prestigious and progressive institutions of learning in the country.  With 114 years of history, it remains to be one of the country’s premier college for women.   

Located within the city limits of Manila, the campus is a 3.6-hectare lot found in Leon Guinto Street, a street parallel to Taft Avenue, in Malate. It has an approximate enrolment of 2,313 from Pre-K, elementary, secondary, college, and graduate school students. It is accessible from all parts of Metro Manila through the Light Rail Transit (LRT) System, jeepneys, and buses plying the Taft Avenue and Buendia routes.  

The College Unit of St. Scholastica’s College Manila
With four Schools in its College Unit, it offers various programs that have a strong liberal arts core taught and delivered through strategies and channels that aims to develop a critical and socially responsible individual.

These five schools are the School of Business and Accountancy, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Hotel, Leisure and Restaurant Management, and School of Music.

It offers holistic education anchored on academic excellence and develops competencies and skills that students will need in the field of endeavor that they have chosen.  Classroom lectures, research, and actual experiences accompany each student in their search for truth.  It offers a liberating school environment where one can ask questions and seek answers in an atmosphere of academic freedom and mutual respect thus gaining a deeper and inclusive understanding of the world.

The College Unit offers a dynamic and exciting campus environment of academic freedom, intellectual stimulation, and congenial interpersonal relationships among peers and with other members of the Scholastican Community.  There are nineteen (19) student organizations that allow students to meet and work with peers in an atmosphere of inclusivity.  

Among these are academic organizations that offer student-led activities and programs that help enhance what we learn inside the classroom.  It also offers interest organizations that cater to one's artistic inclinations in dance and theater and those that allow the expression and practice of personal advocacies. 

All Schools have academic and professional linkages that show their commitment to partnering with professional organizations, presenting opportunities for benchmarking, networking, and professional development of faculty that go into educating its students, adding depth to their overall college experience.

Its faculty roster boasts of highly qualified, seasoned faculty members who are considered to be leading authorities in their field – board reviewers, lawyers, government consultants, book authors, artists, licensed professionals as designers, educators, psychologists, medical doctors, and practitioners from leading private corporations and the public sector.

The Senior High School Leadership Academy
The Senior High School Unit stands out among other senior high schools as it was granted recognition by the Department of Education to offer a Senior High School Leadership Academy in 2014. In June 2015, SSC Manila officially offered the Leadership Academy to its pilot batch of 111 students, later on having its first batch of graduates in March 2017.

As an added value, the Senior High Leadership Academy fully adopts an experiential approach to leadership development and where leadership skills and dispositions are integrated into the curricular and co-curricular programs given to students. Students’ academic work is designed to give opportunities for students to apply their acquired personal and organizational leadership skills.

Its curricular and co-curricular programs are designed to prepare university-ready high school graduates. The Senior High curriculum is continuously re-calibrated under the supervision of in-house curriculum experts to provide enriched Grades 11 and 12 curricula for all tracks and strands.   

Each track and strand in our Senior High school has clear learning outcomes that are well-aligned with the desired college courses of our students.  These track and strands are:
General Academic Strand
Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine Track
Accounting and Business Management Track
Humanities and Social Sciences Track
Visual Arts or the VISA Program
Home Economics-Culinary Program
Performing Arts in Music Program

All of these programs are created and implemented by an exceptionally competent and committed set of faculty in the Senior High. Teachers handling specialized subjects in Senior High School are MA or Ph.D. degree holders, college professors, and industry experts.  

Other facts about SSC Manila:

• SSC is accredited by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU).
• SSC's School of Music is recognized as a Center of Excellence for Music Education
• SSC's varsity teams are named The SSC Scions and are annually competing in the Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (WNCAA) and the Women's Collegiate Sports Association (WCSA).

What programs & courses does St. Scholastica's College Manila offer?

Choosing the right program can help you set your future goals and visualize where you want to be. Whether you want to be an engineer, a teacher, an accountant, or you want to level up in your profession, making yourself informed with the right choices will surely back you up in the future. Are you ready to map your career with St. Scholastica's College Manila? Make the best decision in choosing the right path for you, click through the list of programs offered by St. Scholastica's College Manila below:

Senior High School Tracks

College (Undergraduate) Programs

Graduate Studies Programs