Guagua National Colleges often called GNC is a private, non-sectarian Catholic school. It offers primary, secondary, and tertiary education. It was founded by Fr. Nicanor M. Banzali, former parish priest of Guagua, Pampanga, on 1918. He conceived the idea of founding an education institution to inculcate faith in God, search for knowledge and love of country in the minds of the youth, and to satisfy the educational needs of his parishioners, especially those of the poor.