{"id":18,"date":"2020-10-29T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:28:40","slug":"historical-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Historical Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-2\" id=\"block-1\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\"><\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-align-center u-clearfix u-section-3\" id=\"block-2\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-middle-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"custom-expanded u-video u-video-contain u-video-1\">\n          <div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-1\">\n            <iframe style=\"position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wijqRAzkIWk?playlist=wijqRAzkIWk&amp;loop=1&amp;mute=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;controls=0&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=1\" data-autoplay=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <h5 class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-default u-text-1\">zamboanga state college of marine sciences and technology<\/h5>\n        <h2 class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-default u-text-2\">Historical Background<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"u-align-justify u-text u-text-3\"><b>Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and Technology\n(ZSCMST)&nbsp;<\/b>is a public educational institution in Fort Pilar Shrine,\nZamboanga City. The state college started out as a campus of the Philippine\nInstitute of Fisheries Technology&nbsp;(PIFT) in 1956. Through the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lawyerly.ph\/laws\/view\/l640b\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\">R.A. No. 3434<\/a>&nbsp;in\n1961, it became the&nbsp;<b>Mindanao Regional School of Fisheries (MRSF).&nbsp;<\/b>Then,\nthrough the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialgazette.gov.ph\/1986\/01\/28\/presidential-decree-no-2020-s-1986\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-2\">Presidential Decree No. 2020<\/a>&nbsp;in 1986, MRSF turned into\na state college as the Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and\nTechnology.&nbsp;<br>\n          <br>Currently, ZSCMST offers a variety of tertiary programs\nunder three college units:&nbsp;<b>Fisheries and Food Sciences,&nbsp;Maritime\nTechnology, and Education and Liberal Arts.<\/b>&nbsp;These academic units offer\nnot only bachelor's degree courses but also<b>&nbsp;diploma, certificate, and\ngraduate courses<\/b>. For those who are interested in learning certain skills\nand in earning a<b>&nbsp;National Certificate (NC)<\/b>&nbsp;in only less than a\nyear,&nbsp;<b>TESDA courses<\/b>&nbsp;are also provided by the school.\nAdditionally, ZSCMST has a Senior High School department with available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edukasyon.ph\/college-life\/tesda-vs-tvl-what-you-really-should-know-between-the-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-3\"><b>Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) strands<\/b>\n          <\/a>.&nbsp;<br>\n          <br>The Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and\nTechnology, as guided by its vision, mission, and core values, has been\nactively contributing to the sciences and research since its foundation. It led\nthe projects of the&nbsp;<b>Southern Mindanao Aquatic Resources Research and\nDevelopment Zonal Network<\/b>&nbsp;from 1995 to 2003. The college also was<b>&nbsp;one\nof the principal institutions for the National Research and Development Network\nfor Capture Fisheries<\/b>. As the only academic institution in the area of\nWestern Mindanao to have programs in marine and sea studies, ZSCMST continues\nto provide such opportunities to Filipinos; beginning in 2018, students can\npursue their degree programs&nbsp;<b>without paying any tuition fee<\/b>&nbsp;as\nthe college is covered by the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nine.cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2017\/08\/04\/list-SUCs-with-free-tuition-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-4\">Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zamboanga state college of marine sciences and technology Historical Background Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and Technology (ZSCMST)&nbsp;is a public educational institution in Fort Pilar Shrine, Zamboanga City. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/?page_id=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historical Background&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zscmst.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}