Catholic Education
Aiming At The Highest Good Since 1948
St Teresa's College was founded by His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Charles Heerey, Archbishop of Onitsha, in 1948 as a Grade II Teacher Training College, with Rev. Fr. William Butler as the founding principal. In 1952 it became a secondary school, to give a sound Catholic education to the boys of the vast Archdiocese of Onitsha.
Today the college is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka and is the talk of the town in discipline, sports and academic excellence. Its motto, Bonum Eligere, means "aiming at the highest good".
Best in Learning
Eleven departments and a "fail and fail out" rule that keeps standards high.
Best in Character
Daily devotion, discipline and service, rooted in the Catholic faith.
Either you are or you are not. No two ways about it. Only the best is good enough.
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Years of education
Students
Teaching staff
Subjects taught
Browse Our Departments
Eleven teaching departments prepare every Teresan for the BECE and the SSCE, in theory and in the laboratories.
The Men Who Shaped STC
17 principals have led the college since Rev. Fr. William Butler founded it in 1948.
Rev. Fr. Paul Ifeanyi Ali
September 2022 – date
Rev. Fr. Dr. Mellitus Ezikanyi
July 2014 – 2022
Rev. Fr. J.C. Igwebueze
2006 – 2014
Rev. Fr. Dr. J.M. Chikani
1991 – 2009The Citadel Where We Are Formed
For more than seven decades, St Teresa's College has drilled, schooled and shaped boys into men who are the light of justice and peace.
150 Teachers
Qualified graduate staff in eleven departments.
Catholic Formation
Daily devotion and Mass in the college chapel.
Boarding Houses
Boarding life built for total discipline.
Worldwide Old Boys
STOBA branches across Nigeria, the UK and the USA.
Latest From The College
News from St Teresa's College and the St Teresa's Old Boys Association.
Entrance forms into JSS1 and SS1 are on sale
Forms are sold at the college and at the Bulletin Office of the Catholic Diocesan Secretariat, Nsukka. The entrance examination holds on the first Saturdays of August and September.
What Teresans Say
Principals, students and old boys on the college that formed them.
Life At The College
The campus, our students and our old boys, from the college photo albums.
