Universities
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- Ateneo de Davao University, the Jesuit university in the Davao region
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- Lyceum of the Philippines – Davao, the first LPU campus outside Luzon
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- University of Mindanao - Davao region's oldest and the first private, non-sectarian university in Mindanao
- University of the Immaculate Conception - the oldest Catholic school in Mindanao, founded in 1905 by the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary
- University of Southeastern Philippines - the first state university in the Davao Region
- University of the Philippines Mindanao - the country's national university and premier institution of higher learning, serving as the U.P. System's flag-bearer in Mindanao
