Pilar College- is private sectarian school in Zamboanga City, Philippines. It is located at R.T. Lim boulevard. The school is known to be the oldest school in the city founded on the year 1894 by the Beaterio sisters. We The Pilar College Community Envision An Integral Human And Christian Formation For The transformation Of the Society. Pilar College is committed to the formation of the whole person for the service of God and community with preferential love for the poor. A school owned and administered by the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM), pioneered Catholic education in the Southwestern part of Mindanao. Dedicated to the education of the children and the youth of Zamboanga City and the surrounding provinces, today it offers three levels of learning: elementary, secondary and college. Pilar College was founded in 1894 as a Cartilla School by the Beaterio Sisters who evacuated from Tamontaca, Cotabato.One of the two sisters who started the Cartilla School in 1894 was Mother Ma. Antera Cruz, RVM. The school was originally located in front of Plaza Pershing where the City Theatre now stands. The lot and the house belonged to the Lerenzo family of Zamboanga City.