Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) is a multi-campus state university system in the province of
Negros Oriental. Its beginnings can be traced back in 1907 with the foundation of Negros Oriental Provincial School (now Negros Oriental High School). Two decades after, a trade school called the Negros Oriental Trade School was built in 1927, and was later converted into East Visayan School of Arts and Trades in 1956. Despite being considered as separate institutions, students in the trade school continued to have their courses in English and Mathematics in the Negros Oriental Provincial School.
By 1983, the Central Visayas Polytechnic College was established, merging the East Visayan School of Arts and Trades with the Bais School of Fisheries and the Guihulngan Vocational School. And in 2004, it officially became the
Negros Oriental State University through the
Republic Act No. 9299 approved by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.