BNAVS became the PACD-BVE Training Center in rice production for American Peace Corps Volunteers.

BNCAT then was offering the following courses: The College was also one of the Experimental Agricultural High Schools (EAHS) selected by the Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF) under Presidential Decree No.

His incumbency is marked by a list of distinctive accomplishment such as the establishment of a multi-campus State Institution; a remarkable increase in the number of non-degree and degree curricular programs/offerings, which resulted in increased enrolment and need for more teachers; exempted Secondary School Teachers to be transferred to DECS per CHED-DECS joint circular, intensified rehabilitation, repair, face-lifting of old structures and construction of new academic, research, library, dormitory, canteen-cafeteria, sports and recreation facilities; opened the Graduate Studies and Applied Research in its four Campuses; acquired state of the art equipment, e.g., Speech Lab., computers, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Laboratory equipment, the Tissue Culture Laboratory.

The campus in Siniloan was founded in 1952 (as Baybay National High School), where the university traces its roots.

With 6 hectares (15 acres) of land, it is a "Center of Development" in Teacher Education (CHED Memorandum Order 17, series of 2016) and also concentrates on Industrial Technology.

It sits on a land area of 12 hectares (30 acres) in Barangay Mayondon-Malinta and concentrates on Fisheries, and Food Nutrition, and Dietetics.

Auxiliary sites There are also two satellite campuses in Nagcarlan, Laguna, and in Lopez, Quezon, a manpower extension campus in Magdalena, Laguna, and two International Language Studies Centers in Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam, and Changwon Moonsung University, South Korea.

The University's governance is vested in the Board of Regents (or Lupon ng mga Rehente), commonly abbreviated as BOR.

Their membership is coterminous with their respective terms, while the remaining two members are from the Private Sector who are prominent citizens of the Province of Laguna.

Elected to office by the Board of Regents on March 21, 2019, Dr. Briones is the third President of the University, succeeding Dr. Ricardo A. Wagan (2007-2012) and Dr. Nestor M. De Vera (2012-2019) respectively.