Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) is a Catholic higher educational institution in Legazpi City, Albay. Known as the Dominican university of Bicol, AUL can trace her beginning on June 8, 1948 when Don Buenaventura de Erquiaga opened the portals of Legazpi Junior Colleges at a modest site with a two-story building on corner Rizal and Mabini Streets in the port district of Legazpi City. About two years later, the school had already expanded to what is now the AUL downtown campus along Peñaranda and Gov. - See more at: http://www.aq.edu.ph/index.php?p=main&s=about&taskId=history#sthash.3wi9Qy5P.dpuf
