Section 2Sec./Art. 2

The State College shall primarily offer higher professional, technical instructions for special purposes and promote research and extension services, advanced studies and progressive leadership in education, agriculture, fishery, engineering, arts and sciences, short-term vocational-technical and other continuing courses as may be relevant. It shall also provide primary consideration to the integration of researches/ studies for the development of the Province of Misamis Occidental.

The existing high school shall be transferred to the jurisdiction and supervision of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS): Provided, That this high school shall be allowed to remain and operate within the campus of the State College until it shall have been transferred to another location or until their students shall have been accommodated in other public or private high schools: Provided, further, That the State College may operate a reasonably-sized laboratory school, if it has a college of education.