Philippine Reserve Officer Training Corps

The Philippine Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a military program for college students in the Philippines. It is intended to train students to prepare for national defense, and includes problem solving, military discipline, systematic planning, proper ethics, and leadership skills.

In 1862, ROTC was first established in the United States as a college elective focusing on military training and discipline. Many countries that were connected with the United States then followed the same program, including the Republic of the Philippines.
On the brink of World War II, in the year 1912, the Americans established the first Philippine ROTC unit in the University of the Philippines. Even after the country gained its independence, the ROTC program remained a college elective for all Filipino students.

Republic Act No. 9163