Negros Oriental State University is a public/state nonsectarian higher education institution in Dumaguete, Philippines.

The Main Campus is on Kagawasan Avenue, Dumaguete, beside the provincial capitol building of Negros Oriental.

1922 Mr. Teodoro Senador Sr. took over as principal with Miss Salud Blanco, Mr. Estanislao Alviola Sr. and Mr. Fermin Canlas as teachers.

The curriculum offered by the Provincial School included English, reading, grammar, composition, arithmetic, geography, US history, and spelling.

There was also a sewing class, which served as prototype of the vocational arts and trades education in the public schools in the province.

[4][5][8] The Negros Oriental Trade School (NOTS) was ordered to be created on December 3, 1927, by virtue of Act No.

Though it was already considered as a separate institution, its students, however, continued to take their academic courses in English and Mathematics at the Negros Oriental Provincial High School.

Thus on July 26, 1930, Mr. Paul Wittman, the Division Superintendent of Schools for Negros Oriental, petitioned the Governor-General Henry Dwight F. Davis to reserve for the future campus of the Negros Oriental Trade School a piece of property adjoining the Catholic town cemetery, which lay at what was then the outskirts of Dumaguete.

The trade school was transferred to the present site and 18 fourth year students were turned out as first graduates with Julian Abrasado and Sixto Dilicano as valedictorian and salutatorian respectively.

Shop courses were housed in the concrete building and students took their academic subjects at the Negros Oriental High School.

The Negros Oriental Trade School campus was used by the US Army in 1945 as quarters for Japanese prisoners of war whom they captured.

Mr. Flores did not stay long in this capacity and Mr. Santos was called back to assume the position of the academic department head.

Mr. Teodulfo Despojo was the principal when Mr. Marcelo Bonilla was promoted as Superintendent of Zamboanga School of Arts and Trades.

The responsibility for the financial support of the school also shifted from the shoulders of the province of Negros Oriental to the national government.

The most salient developments in the life of the school at this time included its rise in status to a collegiate level, the diversification of its technical curriculum, and the increase in buildings, machinery, and equipment.

In 1960, Evening Opportunity Classes were introduced for the first time, to make trade education accessible to adults and out-of-school youth, and in 1961, three other government schools in Negros Oriental were placed under the administration and supervision of EVSAT.

In 1975, new shop courses in Marine Engineering and Electronics, and Saturday classes in Practical Arts were offered for the first time.

401 passed on April 14, 1983, and signed into law by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on June 10, 1983, the Central Visayas Polytechnic College came into being.

In its educational task, the primary responsibility of the Central Visayas Polytechnic College was "to give professional and technical training in science and technology, advanced specialized instruction in literature, philosophy, arts and sciences, besides providing for the promotion of scientific and technological researchers."

Philippine education was faced with the great challenge of responding to the compelling need to stabilize the country's political situation by solidifying its economic foundations and fulfilling popular expectations of a better life, now that freedom has been recovered from the morass of oppressive days.

He took his oath of office five days later before the Secretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Dr. Isidro Carino.

As a state university, NORSU is covered by the free tuition law and thus attracting even more students.

NORSU doesn't only cater Oriental Negrenses but also students from other provinces notably Siquijor, Negros Occidental, Cebu and Zamboanga del Norte.

Formerly known as The Edutech, the publication has grown in number and coverage with 15 writers and four editors, with 10 other members including layout artists and webpage designers.

[15] A major event of Negros Oriental State University is the Hugyawan Festival, a merrymaking activity highlighting the celebration of NORSU's Foundation Day celebration featuring spectacular parade of colorful costumes, festivities, humorous gimmicks and merrymaking in the streets of Dumaguete from different colleges and satellite campuses of NORSU[16] to showcase the unique way of life of the inhabitants of Negros Oriental, and at the same time, capture the customary response of the Negrenses towards Nature, Fate, and what God has given them, which is thanksgiving through celebration, merrymaking and revelry.

[17][18] Hugyawan, comes from the Cebuano term “hugyaw” or revelry, is a condensation of the phrase “hugot sa pagbayaw”, which literally translates to sincere tribute or heartfelt offering to God, country and culture and to ourselves.