In 2018, The board of directors voted to rename VSU-LHS into VSU Integrated High School (VSU-IHS).

[9] The university specializes in agricultural research and education, including work in jatropha propagation for the production of biofuel and development of a dwarf macapuno coconut and root-crops, particularly, sweet potato, cassava and yam.

The 1,099-hectare campus hosts 193 buildings composed of academic departments, research and trainings centers, staff and student housing facilities and other structures.

The main campus offers open university system for its distance education program.

New records of the microbat (Hipposideros obscurus), with a length of 5.5 centimeters and body weight of 10 grams, a type of skink (Tropidophorus grayi), and two new species of the Gobiidae fishes (Stiphodon olivaceus and Stiphodon surrufus) were also found by the VSU survey.

VSU’s Natural History Museum collected 43,000 arthropod specimens from 377 families and 500 genera on Mt.

The Federal Republic of Germany (through the ViSCA-GTZ Applied Tropical Ecology Program, ViSCA, Baybay, Leyte, Philippines International) funded the VSU study to collect, identify, describe and document the existing species of aroids (Araceae) and orchids in Mt.

Classified as erect ground dwellers or climbers, the most dominant aroid belong to Pothos and Epipremnum.