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MSU-TCTO traces its roots to 1964, when the Mindanao State University Preparatory High School opened in Bongao as an extension of the MSU preparatory high school in Marawi. More of these secondary schools opened in the island towns of Tawi-Tawi between 1967 and 1977, and there were 20 by 1990.
The college itself was created by Republic Act 6060, approved on August 4, 1969, as the Sulu College of Technology and Oceanography, a unit of Mindanao State University. The law told it to build programs for using and conserving the fisheries of the Sulu Sea, and to do research on fish processing, fish culture and oceanography. It began with degree and diploma programs in fisheries technology.
Tawi-Tawi was split from Sulu as a separate province in 1973. Batas Pambansa Blg. 197, approved on March 16, 1982, renamed the school the Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography. The college's own history places this renaming right after the 1973 province split, but the law that made it official dates from 1982. A science high school and a laboratory elementary school opened in 1984, and the college became an autonomous campus of the MSU System in 1990.
As the crow flies, among the schools pinned where they stand.