 STI College is wholly owned by the "STI Education Services Group, Inc." (STI ESG), a subsidiary of the STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc. of Dr. Eusebio "Yosi" H. Tanco, PhD from the Tanco Group ("parent company of STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc.").Tanco also serves as the majority and principal owner of the "STI Investments, Inc.", another subsidiary of the STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc.

STI was a former computer center organized in 1983, when entrepreneurs Augusto C. Lagman, Herman T. Gamboa, Benjamin A. Santos and Edgar H. Sarte set up the Systems Technology Institute to train people in programming and IT.At first there were two schools, and now there are more than 70.