Saint Ferdinand College is a private, Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution in Ilagan City, Isabela, Philippines.

[5] Being recognized for its good facilities and competent staff, SFC served as the venue for the 1999 National School Press Conference on February 8–12.

It started occupying three small and temporary buildings enough to accommodate a complete elementary school with only one section each per grade level; a complete secondary level with only seven sections; and a handful of college students enrolled in Liberal Arts and in Elementary Education.

In the first year of its existence, St. Ferdinand College was operated purely by lay teachers and administrators, but because of its desire to propagate a stronger and more firm Christian education, the late Rev.

Ricardo A. Jamias, one of the founders and spiritual director invited the Franciscan Sisters to take over the reins of the college from 1952 up to S.Y 1974–1975.

The coming of the Franciscan sisters under the direction of Sr. Agnes Encarnacion gave an impetus to their enrollment and from then on there was a yearly increase in each of the three departments.

These undergraduates rushed to SFC to enroll which resulted in a dramatic increase in the student population in the College Department.

The school Board of Trustees decided to act and secured a loan for the construction of separate buildings for the elementary, secondary, and HE practices houses.

In the succeeding years, new major fields of learning were opened: Accounting, Banking and Finance, and Management in Commerce; English, Mathematics, History, Science, and Filipino under Education.

This led to the expansion of the library with the purchase of hundreds of volumes of books to meet the requirements arising from the increase in student enrollment.

Again, the School was in the national limelight when a BSN graduate in Batch '98 was one of the top notchers in the Nursing Licensure Examination.

A year earlier, the Our Lady of Visitation building was constructed to provide adequate and comfortable rooms for secondary students.

Also, a multi-purpose laboratory was opened for the High School and Elementary for their Home Technology, food processing, textile and sewing, and handicraft-making practicum.

A fourth floor has been added to the Lourdes building and a 500-seater auditorium complete with a sound and stage lighting system was constructed.

Due to the increasing student population, the school likewise leased the old rectory and converted it into classrooms for the college department.