In 25 October 1978, former city council of makati and proprietor by name of Oscar M. Ibay the DATAMEX computer tutorial services. The first campus was established in Cartimar Shopping Center, Taft Avenue, Pasay City followed by its second campus as COBOL, Fortran, RPG, BASIC Language, Assemble Language and Pascal. The course leading to the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Two Associate in Computer Secretarial Course.

In response to the growing needs to Computer Education, DATAMEX a non-sectarian and stock educational institution was incorporated and registered in 1984 under the trade name of DATAMEX Computer School and was advertently elevated to DATAMEX Computer College 1993.

Having earned recognition from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Technical Education and Skills Development, DATAMEX Institute of Computer Technology offers an undergraduate degree course in computer science as well as vocational-technical computer courses as Two-year Integreted Computer Programming, Two-year Integrated Hardware Servicing and two years integrated Information Management.

With an increasing demands for computer literacy to fill the needs of technology advancement, DATAMEX further sought an approval of CHED and TESDA to offer additional courses such as Two-year Integrated Hotel and Restaurant Management, Two-year Integrated Health Care Service, Two-year Integrated Computer Animation, Three-year ladderized other short courses like Caregiver, Call Center, etc that are expected to gain full recognitaion.

For the past two decades, DATAMEX, a 100% Filipino owned Computer School succesful operating in the Philippine takes pride in its relentless effort for academic excellence. With the governement's accelerated economic recovery program, the demand for trained and skilled personnel was greater that ever.