Second American university in the Philippines and Asia (after Silliman University (1901) in Dumaguete). The university ranks number one in Western Visayas region with 2 Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) Centers of Excellence designated programs in Agriculture and Business Administration and 4 Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) Centers of Development designated programs in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, & Teacher Education. Central Philippine University holds many firsts in the Philippines in some of the units that it established – the CPU Philippine Center for Packaging Engineering and Technology (CPU PC-PET) (first of its kind in South East Asia); Central Philippine University College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences (first government recognized agricultural school outside Luzon); Central Philippine University Republic (CPU Republic) (first and oldest organized student government in South East Asia); CPU TV Channel (first university-based TV Channel in Asia); Central Philippine University College of Theology (first Baptist theological seminary in the Philippines); and Iloilo Mission Hospital (the university hospital of the university) (first American and Protestant hospital in the Philippines). The university enrolls and is widely known to foreign students who wants to study in Panay and Western Visayas with 216 foreign students studying from 27 foreign countries. The university is associated and has produced people who became notable in their respective fields – Rodolfo Ganzon (Senator and first popularly elected Mayor of Iloilo City), Jovito Salonga (Senator), Perfecto R. Yasay, Jr. (Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines), National Artists Ramon Muzones (for Literature) and Leonor Orosa-Goquingco (for Dance), Leonor Briones (Secretary of Education of the Philippines under President Duterte's administration), Gilopez Kabayao (Musician and Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate (Asian Nobel Prize), and Jose Vasquez Aguilar (The first Filipino recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and also first recipient of the award for Government Service category for his work as the "Father of the Community School Movement"), among others. University of San Agustin – founded in 1904 by the oldest Roman Catholic religious who came to the Philippines – The Order of St. Augustin, is the First Augustinian University in Asia and the Pacific. It received its university status in March 1953 which also holds the distinction as the First university in Western Visayas. St. Paul University Iloilo – Founded in the 1940s as a subject to the propagation of Catholicism in the American regime in the Philippines supported the spread of Protestant religion with the help