Awarded "Best School Nationwide" in Disaster Readiness & Preparedness in 2015 & 2017, UC was cited for the 4th year in a row, by Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana in an awards ceremony conducted annually by the DND Office of Civil Defense at the PICC Plenary Hall on 6 December 2019.

The University of the Cordilleras (UC) was among the Top 3 finalists for Best Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) and Humanitarian Assistance in the 2018 National Gawad Kalasag held on December 4, 2018 at the AFP Theater in Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City.

As part of the Tublay Agri-Ecotourism plan mapped by the University of the Cordilleras (UC) in partnership with the Investments in Loving Organizations that can build Village Economies (ILOVE) Foundation, members of the Tublay Organic Farming Practitioners Association Inc. (TOFPAI) were trained in making various products from local organic ingredients.

Various organizations have pledged support towards the Ecotourism Plan for Tublay in Benguet by the University of the Cordilleras (UC) which was among the Top 8 national entries in the Quest for Loving Organizations that can build Village Economies (Quest for LOVE).

After being chosen as one of the Top 8 entries in this year's Quest for Loving Organizations that can build Village Economies (Quest for LOVE), the first phase of the University of the Cordilleras' (UC) Ecotourism Plan for Tublay, Benguet is now under way.

The University of the Cordilleras (UC) in partnership with Children International Philippines Inc. (CIPI) donated a total of 19,234 books, valued at approximately P7.6M, to 41 public elementary and high schools in Itogon, Benguet and Dagupan City.

Best Nationwide in Disaster Risk Reduction & Management; Higher Education Category; at the 19th Gawad Kalasag National Awards. NDRRMC, through its President, DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced the Top Three Institutions nationally, namely: 1st Place: UC; 2nd Place: the University of San Carlos; 3rd Place: Capiz State University on December 11, 2017 at the Crown Plaza Manila Galleria.

UC was awarded the 2017 Cordillera Gawad Kalasag for "Best Higher Education Institution" in the entire region in disaster risk reduction and management and humanitarian assistance.

A geographic information system-based dengue surveillance and epidemiology, the first in the country, will be piloted in Baguio in a bid to further improve government health care response to dengue fever.

Proving the university's solid support to government initiatives on disaster response, the University of the Cordilleras has been named the Best School (Urban-Private Category) for the second consecutive time in the Cordillera tilt of the 2015 Gawad Kalasag.