About Us - Joseph Education College

Joseph Education College (JEC) is the first private flagship of a Catholic College in Myanmar. The College was founded with the name of Joseph Education Institute (JEI) by Joseph Kung Za Hmung @ Win Hlaing Oo who is a Catholic Christian man (a lay person) on 12 January 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). With the decision of School Administration Committee meeting on 29 May 2020, we change our institutional name to “Joseph Education University” to expand our educational services to our humanity on 1 June, 2020. However, the Private School Supervisory Board of Myanmar Government issued the License for us as Joseph Education College on 25 March 2025.

This College has a distinctive collegiate structure. This College is made up of different colleges. Students and academics at different colleges benefit from belonging both to the University. Colleges are academic communities where students usually have their own tutorials with their own administrative and academic authority. For nearly six decades, Myanmar suffered from a dearth of respectable higher education and civil society leadership due to a military imposed government. The residual effects of those policies continue. JEC is committed to changing that environment by preparing men and women with the knowledge, skill and moral capacity to enter successfully into the work force, to become professional people in a variety of fields and ultimately to offer Myanmar the leadership it needs to enter the world stage as a respected partner. JEC will nurture qualified local talent capable of stepping into responsible positions in business, education and science that, up to now, could only be filled by foreign personnel. A unique feature of JEC – and the key to its wide appeal – is the emphasis on the liberal arts which can be recognized in the courses offered throughout the bachelor years.

Our Vision

Faithful to Catholic Faith, the Joseph Education College envisions itself as a premier Catholic institution of learning in Myanmar, Asia, committed to the professional and moral formation of her stakeholders for social transformation.

Our Mission

The College, in pursuit of truth, guided by reason and illumined by faith, dedicates herself to the generation, advancement, and transmission of knowledge to form competent and compassionate professionals, committed to the service of the Church, the nation, and the global community.