A TOTAL of six higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United States and Japan have been benchmarked by the Ilocos Norte-based Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) to enhance their curriculum in Advance Energy and Green Building Technologies (AEGBT).

The university team visited the two countries to forge partnerships with globally acclaimed institutions like the US-based Rutgers University (RU), Columbia University (CU), Yale University (Yale) and the University of Connecticut (UConn), as well as Japan's Ashikaga University (AU) and Tokyo University (TU).