St. Jude College was established in honor of St. Jude Thaddeus, the Apostle and Patron Saint of the Hopeful and the embodiment of the true Christian spirit. Through its allied health services, it started as the St. Jude Maternity Clinic in 1950. Faced with the growing health needs of the community and the breakthroughs and advances in allied medical sciences, the founders, Dr. Ramon D. Atienza, Jr. and his wife, Dr. Felicidad Calip-Atienza, expanded the Maternity Clinic from a two-storey building to a five-storey building with a 120-bed capacity. Later, they built an eight-storey building to house the School of Nursing. The two edifices were inaugurated on the feast day of St. Jude Thaddeus on October 28, 1968. As a result, the Maternity Clinic was elevated to the status of a College for consistently producing outstanding students and exemplary topnotchers in the licensure or board examinations since 1971. Through the years, with the sheer dedication and passion of the founders, an additional eight-storey building, was erected to comprise the Main Building in 1977. With a vision for a progressive, proactive and dynamic education and the mission of upholding academic and clinical excellence, courses such as BS in Physical Therapy and BS in Computer Science were offered in 1995. A year later, the eight storey Atienza-Calip Building was constructed.