Benguet State University-Buguias Campus (BSU-BC) is centrally located at the fertile valley of Loo, Buguias, Benguet. It is ninety (90) kilometers away from Baguio City.
It could trace its modest beginning as a Settlement Farm School on January 23, 1932 by virtue of Executive Proclamation No. 435 under the Department of Education with an area of 30.6487 hectares.
To meet the needs of increasing student populace and the growing demands for a higher level of learning, this school was converted to a National Trade School by Republic Act No. 4192 due to insufficient or appropriate school site in Poblacion, Buguias, Benguet.
The merging of the Loo National Vocational School gave rise to Buguias-Loo Agro-Industrial School offering an agriculture and trade curricula. In 1974, offered a two-year Post Secondary Trade Technical Education Curriculum major in Food Trades and Garment Trades for the girls while Building Construction and Furniture and Cabinet Making for the boys. The graduates of this course had the chance to continue and finished a bachelor's degree while the rest could establish their own business. Some preferred to apply and find a job in other places in need of their specialization.
Since this is only the school that caters the needs of the locality and its easy accessibility to the other neighboring communities, the clamor to offer other relevant courses transformed Buguias-Loo Agro-Industrial School to Buguias-Loo Polytechnic College on December 30, 1994 by virtue of Republic Act No. 7849. This is through the initiative of the incumbent congressman of the lone district of Benguet, Congressman Samuel M. Dangwa.
The school offered teacher education programs particularly Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education (BSIE) and later Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education (BSAE) and Bachelor in Secondary Education (BSEd). It also catered on a non-teaching degree course namely Diploma in Agricultural Technology-Bachelor in Agricultural Technology (DAT-BAT).
The growing demands of more courses to be offered and the unexpected influx of students to this school led the people of this community to legislate a resolution aiming for the integration of this college to Benguet Sate University. This resolution was favorably endorsed by the municipal officials of this town headed by Honorable Mayor Domingo B. Bay-an.
Another milestone in higher education took place when Buguias-Loo Polytechnic College was formally integrated to Benguet State University on May 24, 2001 bearing the name Benguet State University- Buguias Campus, a name it carries up to the present.
This is school is under the direct and able leadership of Dr. Basito S. Cotiw-an, a professor of the college of Veterinary Medicine as its Executive Dean.
As an external campus, it is the center of teacher education in Northern Benguet. It envisions to strictly adhere to the four functions of higher education namely instruction, research, extension and production.
Under the control and concern of the present administration, remarkable transformations on the growth and development of the school took place. We have the improvement of physical resources, construction of additional buildings like the motorpool, the barn, the poultry house, the green house for orchidarium and for valued crops and the expansion of the Library; renovation and paintings of class-rooms and offices; concreting of pathways and a fascinating and breathtaking landscape attracting the attention and admiration of students, visitors and the community as a whole.
Because of its temperate climate, it is also the center of local and national conferences and seminar-workshops. It is a favorite venue for farmers' information dissemination, lectures, discussions ans consultations.
BSU-Buguias Campus is a progressing external campus of the Benguet State University-Main and still growing to be one of the leading schools in Northern Benguet.
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