This paper explains in detail why some universities in the Philippines teaches Spanish. The reason is because Philippines used to be a colony of Spain and was under Spanish rule for more than three hundred years. Data is gathered through the use of questionnaires and the preliminary participants consisted of two groups of students and teachers, one group was from the Arellano High School in Manila and the other group was from the Mapa High School. The final form of the questionnaires were distributed to the students that were actually taking Spanish courses at the University of the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas, the University of Manila, the Far Eastern University, the National University, and the Philippine Women’s University. The study is limited by the fact that it was not conducted in all of the universities in the Philippines that offer Spanish courses. The study is also limited by the fact that there is a lack of observation in the field and that the results rely largely on student’s estimated understanding of their Spanish linguistic abilities as well as the opinion of the instructors themselves in regard to the development of their student’s Spanish literacy skills. In conclusion, the paper states that the Spanish instruction of Philippine universities still need a lot of improvement in regard to teaching methods.