The Isabela State University is a public university in the Philippines. It is mandated to provide advanced instruction in the arts, agricultural and natural sciences as well as in technological and professional fields. Its main campus is located in Echague, Isabela. The Isabela State University traces its humble beginning in December 1918 to a farm school – the Echague Farm School, constituting of a four-room academic building and a home economics building established through the pioneering efforts of an American supervising teacher Mr. Horatio Smith, under the provisions of the Compulsory Education Act. With only ten teachers to run the school, it accommodated 100 pupils from grades five to seven to take up elementary agriculture. Soon after, growth was gradually seen when the 100 enrollees increased to 300 necessitating the hiring of more home economics teachers and a farm manager as was provided by the same provision. Subsequently, more infrastructures were gradually constructed in 1925 to include a modest library building, a granary, a poultry swine building, garden houses and a nursery.