In April 2011, Mr. Raphael Victor V. Santiago had the vision of conducting online-based live- lecture education in the Philippines. He and a few of his friends started conducting basic English lectures over the internet in his humble home in Cubao, Quezon City for local and international friends and acquaintances. The clientele steadily grew over the next months. By the following year, there was already a steady influx of students enrolling one after another. Students started asking for other lectures they wanted to take online.

By the end of 2012, the humble home where the company started could no longer accommodate the number of online teachers and the internet capacity was no longer suitable for their needs. At this time, Mr. Santiago decided to formalize the business and take it to the next level. In June of 2013, International Academy Manila’s main branch started its operation in a small residential space barely 70sqm big along G. Roxas Street, Manresa, Quezon City. It was just enough to accommodate a reception area, a classroom to accommodate 15 people comfortably and a faculty room for around 6 instructors.

Aside from the online-based live lectures where the company started from, center-based English lectures were also opened in the main branch. The programs steadily grew to include reviews for local licensure exam for nurses and teachers and tutorials from preschool up to college. Personality development became part of the programs offered towards the end of 2013. Today, we take pride in the continuous growth of our community from an array of students, employees and partners, both locally and internationally. The single program offered now grew to over thirty (30) divided under ten (10) institutes. At the height of the pandemic in 2021, International Academy Manila was able to redesign the future of education by offering a homeschool curriculum from preschool to senior high school as its flagship program for the basic education department. International Academy Manila sees itself by the year 2030 as the top learning institution in Asia, producing world-class learners by providing outstanding instructors and excellent programs delivered through effective and efficient methodologies.