Overview

The School of Business and Economics (SBE) is previously named as the College of Commerce of the University of San Carlos. It has come a long way after it was founded in 1937. Fr. Bernard Bonk, SVD, is the founder and first Dean of the college of the then San Carlos College, now the University of San Carlos. It is currently composed of the following departments: Accountancy, Business Administration, Hospitality Management, Economics, and Graduate Programs.

The Cebuano Studies Center of the university has preserved copies of The Carolinian of the early 1940s which contained bits of information about the first Dean and founder of the college. Fr. Bonk was in charge of the financial affairs of the Society of the Divine Word in the United States before he was transferred to the Philippine SVD. As a young priest, he was sent for post-graduate studies in business by the SVD to prepare him for an important assignment in the future. He went to De Paul University in Chicago for his commerce degree and finished the Master’s degree at Harvard University in Boston.

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