The first program was adopted from   UP Diliman, the other from UP Manila. When Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) was placed under its administration, it became its first and only graduate offering. (It is now under the School of Management).

There are three departments in the CHSS: Humanities, Social Sciences and Human Kinetics.

The college has highly-qualified faculty members who are Ph.D. and MS/MA holders, or who are currently pursuing their master's degree.

The research output of the CHSS faculty is reflected in the professorial lectures that they have delivered and in their completed and on-going researches. The college also contributes to extension, the faculty being resource persons, paper readers, tutors, convenors or participants in different activities where their expertise is tapped.