In our new generation, computer and technology is part of everything. Whatever ambitions or profession you intend to pursue, computer is of great importance. In short, knowledge of computer is a necessity.

That is why AMA Education System exist.

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Humble Beginnings

In 1978, Amable R Aguiluz V, fourth son and namesake of Amable M. Aguiluz (1913-1977) who was former Auditor General during President Diosdado Macapagal's administration, formed a distributorship in Manila for Computerland. The firm became one of the main distributorship in Manila for Apple Computers in the Philippines. It became one of the venues by which advancements made in the computer science and technology was absorbed in the Philippines industrial life. The computer boom originating in Silicon Valley manifested itself in this undertaking. 

As in the other parts of the world, the growing trend in the Philippines is towards computeriztion. However, the object conditions of the national economy are still not totally suitable to this modern technology. The distributors had to find ways of computers. The formula was simple: train programmers for wider distribution base. On October 22, 1980, The Amable M. Aguiluz Institute of Computer Studies (AMAICS) was established for said purpose.

At that time when many people were not yet oriented to computer technology, AMAICS decided to educate the market. AMAICS was housed at the second floor of David building along Shaw Boulevard. Six apple computers were initially used and eight trainees were taken in for its short-term EDP courses.

Six months after its inception, AMAICS started offering the comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program. In its first semester, the Institute had a total of thirteen enrollees. It occupied the old site with the very same number of computers. With a very samll faculty and enrollment, history was drafted: AMAICS became the first institution of learning to offer a comprehensive curriculum for the country's future computer scientist.