The National College of Science & Technology (NCST) was born in the historic and progressive town of Dasmariñas, Cavite in 1998. As a brain child of a 23-year old visionary entrepreneur in the person of Emerson B. Atanacio, NCST has slowly yet steadily carved its niche in the fast growing and very competitive educational arena not only in the province but in the entire CALABARZON region as well. With an initial enrollment of 550 students in 1998, the school has now increased ten times from its original number as it now has a total population of 11,000 students in all its regular programs. 

The school has been faithful in its mission to provide industry responsive graduates, thus in 2005 it has ventured into its “first institutionally developed” course offering which is the Certificate in Manufacturing Technology and the Diploma in Production Technology course which is under the Dual Training Systems Department. These courses both apply the dual training modality where the students are being trained in two areas of learning- the school and the industry. With an initial enrollee of 10 students in November of 2005, the DTS department has now reached a whooping figure of more than 1,000 students within its first year of operation.