Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL), the Dominican University of Bicol, is a private Catholic University in Legazpi City, Philippines run and owned by the Dominican fathers/Order of Preachers (OP). It was founded by Don Buenaventura de Erquiaga in 1948 as Legazpi Junior Colleges; the name subsequently changed to Legazpi College, and it became a university in 1968.