In 1915, A. G. Daniels visited the Philippines and laid plans for the organization of an academic institution.

A. Steinel and O. F. Sevrens and their families had arrived to supervise the establishment of the Philippine Seventh-day Adventist Academy on a five-acre land located along Calle Luna in Pasay, then part of the province of Rizal.

At the end of 1927, 26 hectares of land was purchased in Baesa, Caloocan, then part of the province of Rizal, to accommodate the increasing student population.

The growing enrollment inspired the administration to purchase a bigger property comprising 165 hectares of land located at Putting Kahoy, Silang, in the province of Cavite, in 1972.

[6] On June 1, 2022, Dr. Arceli H. Rosario officially took office as the eighteenth and first woman president of the university.