Miriam College is a non-stock, non-profit Filipino Catholic educational institution for girls and young women in Quezon City

Quezon City

Quezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...

, Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It offers academic programs from pre-elementary to post-graduate and adult education levels that develop the learning and caring competencies of students and are enriched by a wide range of national, regional, and international linkages. Primarily a women’s school, its pre-elementary, adult education, graduate, and deaf education programs accept male students.
The story of Miriam College dates back to 1926 when the Archbishop of Manila requested the Sisters of the Maryknoll Congregation in New York to initiate a teacher-training program for women in the Philippines.