Mapúa Institute of Technology

Mapúa Convention of Technology (MIT, Mapúa Tech or artlessly Mapúa) is a non-sectarian, analysis oriented, Filipino tertiary convention amid in Intramuros, Manila and in Makati.

It was founded by the aboriginal registered Filipino architect, Don Tomas Mapua, in 1925, a alum of Cornell University. After he died, the attitude was connected by his children, Don Óscar B. Mapúa Sr., a alum in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Convention of Technology, and Gloria Mapúa-Lim.

Mapua Convention of Technology is a antecedent of architects, engineers, and science graduates and produces top achievers in the architectural and engineering fields  as Mapúa Convention of Technology specializes in these fields in the undergraduate and alum levels, abreast from its accession ambit of undergraduate programs such as Psychology, Computer Science, Digital Cinema, Multimedia Arts and Sciences, Technical Communication(New Program), Information Technology, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Hotel & Restaurant Management, and Nursing.

The Convention has been accepted with the Level IV Accredited Cachet to its Civil Engineering affairs by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA), which is one of the aboriginal engineering programs to be accorded such status. In addition, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) afresh accustomed Mapúa’s Mechanical Engineering (ME), Computer Engineering (CpE) and Electronics Engineering (ECE) programs as Centers of Development for Engineering (COD).

Mapúa is aswell the aboriginal Philippine and Southeast Asian educational academy to accept ABET certification, apprehension the Convention to be at par with US-based colleges and universities.

De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde

De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB, Benilde) is a clandestine Catholic academy in the Malate commune of Manila, Philippines. There are 3 campuses, one is forth Taft Avenue, with two campuses forth Pablo Ocampo Street and Arellano Avenue. The academy is a affiliate academy of De La Salle Philippines, a arrangement of 17 schools beneath the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District.

The academy was accustomed in 1980 during the administering of Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC as the Academy of Career Development, a night academy for alive acceptance at De La Salle University. In 1988, it was renamed the De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde, afterwards Saint Bénilde Romançon, a Christian Brother who accomplished in France during the 19th century. In 1994, the academy became autonomous, and in 2004, forth with a restated eyes and mission, accustomed its present name, bottomward the University and became De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde.

The academy uses "learner-centered instruction" to action amount and non-degree programs in the arts, design, management, account industries, computer applications in business, and appropriate fields of study. The academy is the aboriginal in the Philippines to action degrees in animation, consular and adept affairs, agenda filmmaking, consign management, appearance architecture and merchandising, multimedia arts, music production, photography and advice technology above in bold architecture and development.
The college's sports teams, accepted as the Blazers, attempt in the National Collegiate Athletic Association with La Salle Green Hills apery the inferior division. Since abutting the alliance in 1998, the academy has won 5 accepted championships, aboriginal in the 2005 season, back-to-back in the 2007 and 2008 seasons, and addition back-to-back wins in 2013 and 2014 seasons.

Adamson University

Adamson University (AdU) is a clandestine and Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, founded on June 20, 1932 by Greek immigrant George Lucas Adamson as the Adamson Academy of Automated Chemistry. On February 5, 1941, the academy was accepted university cachet by the Department of Education, and on December 4, 1964, the university was angry over to the Vincentian Fathers of the Congregation of the Mission (C.M.) and was congenital into the Adamson-Ozanam Apprenticeship Institutions, Inc. Adamson University is aswell a Member of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Its angel saint is Saint Vincent de Paul.

Adamson University has programs in Alum School, Law, the Advanced Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, Architecture, Business Administration, Education, as able-bodied as secondary, elementary, and basal education. Adamson University has eight courses listed as Centers of Development and Centers of Excellence by the Commission on Higher Apprenticeship and has been accepted Autonomous status.

Adamson University has been included in the top 201+ universities in Asia through Quacquarelli Symonds Asia University Rankings 2011. This makes Adamson University as top 9 in the rankings civic and top 5 in the MeDr. George Lucas Adamson, a Greek chemist from Athens, founded the Adamson Academy of Automated Allure (ASIC) on June 20, 1932 to alternation adolescent men and women forth the curve of applied automated chemistry. It started as a one-classroom academy that acquired into the Adamson Academy of Automated Allure and Engineering (ASICE) on February 19, 1936. Upon approval by the Secretary of Public Instruction of its appliance for university cachet on February 5, 1941, it became accepted as Adamson University (AdU).

George Lucas’s cousin, Alexander Athos Adamson came to AdU anon afterwards to advice the apprentice school. Alexander abutting the administering on July 15, 1932, confined at one time or addition as Vice President, Treasurer and Registrar. Much later, Alexander’s brother George Athos Adamson aswell came on lath in 1934, acceptable the Academy Dean, Dean of the College of Engineering and professor. Evdoxia Savaides Adamson, wife of George Lucas, started alive and teaching in the University in 1939, again served as Dean of the College of Apprenticeship and of the College of Advanced Arts and Sciences. Sofia Adamson, George Athos’s wife, accomplished in the College of Apprenticeship afterwards accession in 1939 and briefly served as Directress of the Junior Normal College.

Except for George Athos and Sofia who larboard afterwards the war, all the Adamsons remained alive in AdU until its about-face to the Vincentian Fathers and Brothers of the Congregation of the Mission in 1964. George Lucas Adamson served as Admiral until 1967, for a absolute of 35 years, including a three-year holdover assignment at the acceptance of the Vincentians as administrators.

Before assuredly clearing on its abiding home forth San Marcelino Artery in 1946 afterwards the war, the academy backward in three altered locations: Sta. Cruz (1932-1933), San Miguel (1933-1939), and Intramuros (1939-1941). In San Marcelino, the University broadcast with the accretion of the Meralco architectonics in 1968 and the St. Theresa’s College-Manila campus in 1977, both just beyond the street.
Leandro I. Montañana, C.M., a Spanish Vincentian was the additional Admiral and aboriginal beneath the Vincentian administration. He served in that accommodation until 1985 if Rolando S. de la Goza, C.M., the aboriginal Filipino university president, succeeded him and served until 1994. Next came Jimmy Belita, C.M., admiral until 2003 and was succeeded by Gregorio L. Bañaga, Jr., C.M whose 12-year admiral is advancing to an end. On July 1, 2015, the Provincial Visitor of the CM accepted that Marcelo V. Manimtim, C.M. will be the sixth University President.
Although best accepted for its allure and engineering programs, Adamson gradually added architecture, sciences, pharmacy, business, education, advanced arts, law, alum school, basal education, and canon courses as it grew bigger. The alteration of buying in 1964 congenital the University into the Adamson-Ozanam Educational Institutions, Inc. and led to its alteration from a civil to a Catholic institution. St. Vincent de Paul, architect of the C.M., was declared as the university's angel saint, and the adage Veritas in Caritate (Truth in Charity) was adopted. A new eyes was articulated, basically that of alms affordable superior apprenticeship abnormally for the socially disadvantaged—one not essentially altered from that of the Greek founders who capital to advice Filipinos accretion a alimentation by alms a best bulk of applied apprenticeship in a minimum bulk of time. To accumulate up with the challenges and demands of the time, the University responded by alms advice systems and technology, nursing, community administration, accommodation management, and concrete apprenticeship courses.

The University was declared a celebrated website by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2007 during its anniversary of its design jubilee. A brand was placed in foreground of the campus’ St. Vincent Building, the oldest building in the University, to admire this history.

In 2010 the Commission on Higher Apprenticeship (CHED) accepted the Autonomous cachet and acceptance for the Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation for Superior Assurance (IQuAME) to the University afterwards casual CHED’s accurate evaluations and visits. The Autonomous cachet agency that Adamson University will accept added freedom or ability in its administration, accommodation authoritative and implementation; accept the advantage to action new programs and ambit courses, a part of others; and the ascendancy to admission an Honoris Causa to those admirable afterward CHED’s accoutrement for acceding honorary degrees.tro Manila area.

University of the East

The University of the East (Filipino: Pamantasan ng Silangan) aswell accepted as U.E, is a clandestine university amid in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1946. Lucio Tan acquired the university in 1990. UE was already labeled as the "largest university in Asia" already accepting an acceptance of over 60,000 students.

UE was accepted the "Autonomous Status" by the Commission on College Apprenticeship (CHED) which has alone been accustomed to called college educational institutions with accomplished superior education.[3] Some of the programs offered by the university were accepted by CHED as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.

UE offers amount programs in business and business administration, law, dentistry, engineering, arts and sciences, accomplished arts, education, computer technology, nursing, concrete therapy, medicine, accommodation administration and alum studies. UE has two added campuses, one in Caloocan and its medical school, the UE Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center amid in Quezon City.
The history of the University of the East starts in September 1946, in a busy allowance on Dasmariñas St., Manila, area 110 acceptance enrolled in Certified Public Accountant (CPA) analysis classes. The accumulation of business agents led by Dr. Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr. that started the sessions fabricated it their cold to advice the country, which was still addled from the war. Of the 110 students, four fabricated it to top spots in the 1947 CPA lath Examinations.

On September 11, 1946, 5 humans — namely Francisco Dalupan, Sr., Herminiglio Reyes, José Torres, Enia Mapa and Santiago de la Cruz — accustomed the Philippine College of Business and Business Administering (PCCBA) forth R. Papa St. in Sampaloc, Manila. The PCCBA accepted 350 acceptance in the summer of 1947. The afterward year, added acceptance enrolled and added bookish units were organized, and the PCCBA confused to what is now UE's capital campus on 2219 Claro M. Recto Avenue.
PCCBA alumni performed auspiciously in the government's accountancy examinations. Because of this success, the government accepted the PCCBA permission to authorize added colleges, arch to the enactment of the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Dentistry, and the Alum Academy of Business Administration.

The PCCBA was accepted university cachet on July 4, 1951 and was renamed the University of the East. Dalupan became UE's aboriginal admiral and administrator of its Lath of Trustees. The aboriginal associates of the Lath were Herminigildo B. Reyes, a businessman, scholar, and above Vice Admiral of the University of the Philippines; Santiago F. de la Cruz, a CPA and business controlling who after succeeded Dalupan as UE president; José L. Torres, a soldier, businessman, and accountant; and Jaime Hernández, above Secretary of Finance.

The afterwards years saw the aperture of the colleges of Law, Medicine, and Engineering, as able-bodied as the Alum Academy of Education. The Alum Academy after alloyed with the Alum Academy of Business Administration.

In June 1954, UE opened a new campus, again accepted as UE Tech, on a 4.86-hectare lot forth Samson Road in Caloocan. UE Caloocan, which is now academically autonomous, is headed by a chancellor. The new Tan Yan Kee Bookish Architecture houses the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, and Accomplished Arts, admitting the College of Engineering has its own building. The UE Caloocan area accept been acclimated for ROTC and CAT apprenticeship back 1986.

In 1955, the UE purchased a one-hectare lot forth Aurora Boulevard in Quezon City, area it accustomed the College of Medicine. On May 17, 1957, the College was adapted into a Foundation and called the UE Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center (UERMMMC).

In 1962 the University acquired a 5,850-square beat lot beyond UERMMMC. This became the Analysis Center for Sciences, Humanities and Culture, which is home to two buildings. One housed the Academy of Music and Arts and the Ballet Academy while the added housed the College of Dentistry and analysis laboratories. The Academy of Music and Arts, now the College of Accomplished Arts, confused to the Caloocan campus in 1981. On the mid 1960s Dalupan commissioned the National Artist Guillermo Tolentino to actualize the attribute of every UEian, the Lualhati from the amount of CBA apprentice Ophelia Salas. The College of Dentistry confused to the Recto (Manila) campus in academy year 1988-1989.

University of the Philippines Diliman

The University of the Philippines Diliman (also referred to as UPD or UP Diliman) is a coeducational, analysis accompaniment university amid in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. It was accustomed on February 12, 1949 as the flagship campus and bench of administering of the University of the Philippines System, the civic university of the Philippines. UP Diliman is the fourth oldest basic university of UP.
Delegated in 1939 as the new campus of again University of the Philippines centered in Manila, the Diliman campus was created from the 493-hectare breadth of the Diliman commune of the again anew accustomed Quezon City to abode the accretion citizenry of the university and to accede the demands to aggrandize its agenda of bookish programs. The beginning of World War II bedfast the development of the area.

Under the babyminding of UP President Bienvenido Gonzalez through a P13 actor admission from the US-Philippines War Damage Commission, abundant of the UP was transferred from its campus in Manila to the bigger Diliman campus and delegated UP Diliman as the University of the Philippines System's bench of administration. The alteration of the Oblation from Manila to Diliman apparent the campus's enactment on February 12, 1949.

Between the 1970s and 1980s, UP Diliman was the website of abundant apprentice activism. It was during these times that apprentice affirmation and action adjoin Marcos' administering became abundant and aggressive. This was one of the precursors to Marcos' acknowledgment of aggressive law in 1972.
UP Diliman was formally accustomed as a basic university on April 23, 1985 at the 976th Meeting of the U.P. Board of Regents.

It is the better basic university in the University of the Philippines System in agreement of amount of degree-granting bookish units, apprentice population, faculty, and library resources.There are 27 degree-granting units on campus, accounting for 22,031 acceptance of which, 15,299 are undergraduates. UP Diliman had a accompaniment of 1,526 full-time adroitness in 2012, of whom 528 accept doctoral degrees. In accession to the units in the capital campus, UP Diliman has addendum programs in Pampanga and Olongapo City as able-bodied as a abyssal class in Bolinao, Pangasinan beneath The Abyssal Science Institute. UP Diliman offers bookish programs in 247 above fields. There were 70 programs at the undergraduate level, 109 at the master’s akin and 68 at the doctoral level.
The library assets of UP Diliman are the better in the country. The absolute book and non-book collections amount 1,170,723 volumes, which cover books, pamphlets, apprenticed periodicals, theses, dissertations, microforms and assorted multimedia titles. The consecutive accumulating totals 60,450 disconnected into 26,679 book titles and 33,771 different titles in online journals. This accumulating has steadily developed through acquisitions and acceptable donations.

The Commission on Higher Education declared nine (9) U.P.D. units as Centers of Excellence as of 2009, currently the accomplished accustomed by this agency.

The UP Diliman campus is aswell the website of the country's Civic Science Complex. Notable analysis units of UP Diliman centered at the Civic Science Complex cover the Abyssal Science Institute (MSI), the Civic Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), the Civic Institute of Physics (NIP), the Civic Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-Diliman (NIMBB-Diliman), and the Civic Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED), which are all antecedents of accurate analysis and development in the Philippines.

The university represents the UP System in the University Able-bodied Association of the Philippines. Its able-bodied teams, collectively alleged the Fighting Maroons, competes in assorted able-bodied competitions while its cheerdance group, the U.P. Pep Squad, represents the university in its anniversary UAAP Cheerdance Competition and aswell represented the country in assorted all-embracing cheerleading competitions.

Far Eastern University

Far Eastern University (FEU) (PSE: FEU) in the University Belt area, West Sampaloc, City of Manila, is a nonsectarian, clandestine university in the Philippines. Created by the alliance of Far Eastern Academy and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, FEU became a university in 1934 beneath the advice of aboriginal admiral Nicanor Reyes, Sr. It has been acclaimed as the arch proprietary (for profit) university in the Philippines. FEU's campus is acclaimed for a amount of actual barrio preserved from the aboriginal bisected of the 20th century.

Far Eastern University was founded in 1934 if the Far Eastern Academy and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance (IABF) merged. Far Eastern College, founded in 1919, had been a advanced arts academy in Quiapo; the IABF had been accustomed (originally beneath the name Institute of Accountancy) by Nicanor Reyes, Sr., arch of the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines, with a amount of added arresting educators in 1928.IABF had been originally predominately acclimated by night students, and the new university, which was accurate by the charge provided by its acceptance rather than government grants.

In its ancient days, FEU was housed in a adapted tobacco branch already present on the four hectare (nearly 10 acre) artifice which would eventually host the accepted campus. Reyes Sr. was appointed the aboriginal admiral of the University, which spent its aboriginal years establishing several of its institutes, including those of Law and Technology. Reyes commissioned Pablo Antonio, who would after be blue-blooded National Artist of the Philippines, to assemble a architecture for the school. In 1939, the Nicanor Reyes Hall, which would after abode the library and Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, opened. Two added barrio by Antonio, the Girls’ High Academy Architecture and Boys High Academy Building, followed in 1940 and 1941, by which year FEU had 10,000 registered students, with an all-embracing apprentice citizenry of 400.

During World War II, the campus was active by the Imperial Japanese Army, who larboard alone its carapace unharmed. Dr. Nicanor Reyes accepting been dead during the occupation, Dr. Hermenigildo B. Reyes was appointed the additional admiral of the University if it reopened in 1945.

Thereafter, FEU connected to expand, with the aperture of a Science Architecture and the enactment of the Institute of Medicine and the Academy of Nursing. In 1955, the FEU hospital was opened. Humanities were alien in 1959, and in 1970 the Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts opened. Aswell in 1970, the for-profit cachet of the Institute of Medicine, Academy of Medical Technology, FEU Hospital and the Apprentice Health Service Clinic was altered, if these were adapted in the FEU Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit educational foundation.

1989 alien abundant awakening to FEU that took abode over a amount of years, with advance and addition of accessories and area and advance of the University's educational standard. This resulted in the accreditation of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Education, and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, and, in the mid-1990s, the Deregulation of the University by the Commission on Higher Education. Enrollment and banking systems were computerized with the advice of Oracle in 2001, consistent in able archival and retrieval of data. The amphitheater was upgraded to board avant-garde date productions and the new twice-monthly presentations by bounded and all-embracing artists accustomed by the President's Committee on Culture. The university aswell accustomed an ISO 9000:2001 for Quality Management and became one of the pilot university in appraisal by IQUAME. The FEU accustomed abounding awards including Social Security System's 1997 Best Employer and Best in Acceptance Services in the country as declared by CHED in 2009. The University aswell prioritized publication, ablution a amount of bookish journals, and began networking with added institutions nationally and abroad. Recent En banc affair of CHED with the letter accustomed by the FEU president. FEU has been Granted with Autonomous Status

Polytechnic University of the Philippines

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Filipino: Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas; abbreviated as PUP and frequently accepted as PUP Main, PUP Sta. Mesa and PUP Manila) is a coeducational, analysis accompaniment university amid in Santa Mesa, Manila, Philippines. It was founded on October 19, 1904 as the Manila Business School, beneath the Division of City-limits Schools – Manila as the city's business school. PUP is aswell accepted as the country's 1st PolytechnicU.

PUP Manila has 48,213 acceptance enrolled. It is aswell the flagship campus and the bench of administering of the PUP System, the country's better university in agreement of bounded ability and apprentice population, which has an estimated of 80,000 acceptance as of 2015. It confers diploma, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and is composed of a alum school, a ambit acquirements apprenticeship program, 14 colleges, two top academy departments including a class school, and the Institute of Technology.

Today, Polytechnic University of the Philippines is admired as the fourth top university in agreement of "job hireability", a analysis conducted by JobStreet.com in 2015.

PUP's sports aggregation represents the accomplished PUP Arrangement in every able-bodied conference. The able-bodied aggregation is accepted as the Mighty Maroons and plays in the Civic Capital Region Appointment of the Accompaniment Colleges and Universities Able-bodied Association (SCUAA). The aggregation aswell plays in the Civic Able-bodied Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (NAASCU) back acceptable a affiliate in 2013. Its official volleyball team, the PUP Lady Radicals, plays in the Shakey's V-League.

PUP traces its roots from the Manila Business Academy which was founded by the Civil Government of the Philippines and was accustomed on October 19, 1904. It is aswell referred to as the Manila Academy of Commerce. The academy was delegated to actualize businessmen and businesswomen for government account and clandestine employment. It was a allotment of the city-limits academy arrangement of Manila which was beneath the administering of Gabriel A. O’Reilly. It captivated its aboriginal classes at a baby two-storey architecture in No. 38 Gunao Street bend Arlegui in Quiapo.

The arrival of acceptance from altered ambit animated the school's cachet as an Insular (or national) academy and was renamed as Philippine Academy of Commerce in 1908. The academy confused out from its Arlegui architecture and connected its operation on Goldenberg Mansion amid on Gen. Solano Street in San Miguel which was aforetime active by the Bureau of Audits and the Philippine Senate. Its adroitness was composed of Filipino and American teachers. For authoritative purposes, the academy was placed beneath the administering of the Superintendent of City-limits Schools but kept its cachet as a civic school.

De La Salle University

De La Salle University (Tagalog: Pamantasang De La Salle) (also referred to as DLSU or La Salle) is a Roman Catholic, Lasallian analysis university in Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle Academy in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre confined as its aboriginal director. The academy confused on September 1921 to its present area to facilitate access in enrollment. DLSU, accepted university cachet on February 1975, is the oldest basic of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a arrangement of 17 Lasallian institutions accustomed in 2006 to alter the De La Salle University System.
The university started as a boys' elementary and top school. It started alms in 1920 a two-year Associate in Arts in Commerce programme, which was after discontinued in 1931 in favour of a Bachelor of Science in Commerce programme. DLSU currently offers coeducational undergraduate and alum amount programmes through its seven colleges and one academy specializing in assorted disciplines, including business, engineering and advanced arts.

The university, currently beneath the administering of President Raymundo Suplido FSC, is a affiliate of several all-embracing university associations (including the ASEAN University Arrangement and All-embracing Association of Universities) as able-bodied as bounded organizations (such as the South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium).

DLSU is articular by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a "Center of Excellence" in six of its programmes, and a "Center of Development" in 3 of its programmes. The university is aswell a part of the 40 institutions accepted free cachet by CHED as of 2010. Likewise, it is the aboriginal of the alone two institutions accepted the highest-level accreditation (Level IV) by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). The university ranks 151-160th and 601-650th in the 2013 Asian University Rankings and 2013 World University Rankings, respectively, appear by Quacquarelli Symonds.

Research is mainly adjourned by the De La Salle University Science Foundation. Back 2000, DLSU has been the CHED Zonal Analysis Center for 10 cities in southern Metro Manila. As such, it evaluates analysis proposals for advocacy for CHED funding, and ecology of CHED-funded researches, a part of others. DLSU analysis has focused on melancholia accretion and renewable energy. Application of its analysis has resulted in the electrification of limited areas in the country through the use of micro hydro generators, and the conception of both of the alone two solar cars of the Philippines, SINAG and SIKAT.

DLSU has three official apprentice publications, including the Ang Pahayagang Plaridel, The LaSallian (a apprentice newspaper) and Green & White, the university annual publication. The De La Salle University Chorale has won several awards from altered all-embracing choir competitions including the Llangollen All-embracing Musical Eisteddfod and Tampere Vocal Music Festival. It is a affiliate of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines back 1986, and has formed rivalries with added universities, including the Ateneo de Manila University and University of Santo Tomas.
People affiliated with the De La Salle University cover one National Artist of the Philippines, Archbishops of Manila and arresting politicians, educators, scientists, business tycoons, singers, actors, TV personalities and the acreage of advice and accessible service.

Ateneo de Manila University

The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila) is a clandestine analysis university in Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in 1859 by the Society of Jesus, the Ateneo is the third-oldest university in the Philippines. Ateneo offers elementary and accessory apprenticeship alone to macho students. The undergraduate and alum programmes are coeducational and organized into four schools, collectively accepted as the Loyola Schools, which are amid at its capital campus at Loyola Heights. Four able schools absorb campuses in altered locations of Metro Manila.

Ateneo undergraduates chase a Catholic-rooted advanced arts class throughout their programs in the Humanities, Amusing Sciences, Science and Engineering, or Business Management. The Commission on Higher Apprenticeship has accustomed the analysis units in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, advice technology, entrepreneurship education, English literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and business administering as Centers of Excellence while the ecology science, history, Filipino literature, and political science units accept been declared Centers of Development. The Loyola Heights campus aswell hosts two allure analysis centers: Philippine Institute of Pure and Applied Allure (PIPAC) and National Allure Instrumentation Center (NCIC).

The Ateneo offers programmes at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and alum levels. Its bookish offerings cover the arts, humanities, business, law, the amusing sciences, philosophy, theology, anesthetic and accessible health, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, ecology science, and government, with forty-eight Bachelor of Arts (AB), Bachelor of Science (BS), and Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degrees at the undergraduate level. At the postgraduate akin there are forty-four Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Science (MS) degrees, six Master of Business Administering (MBA) programmes, two Master of Laws concentrations, one Master of Accessible Management (MPM) degree, two able Doctor of Anesthetic (MD) and Juris Doctor (JD) programmes, and twelve Doctor of Aesthetics degrees. As is accepted in the Philippines, the primary average of apprenticeship is English, with a few classes accomplished in Filipino. Aside from teaching and research, the Ateneo de Manila aswell engages in amusing outreach. Accepted for its advanced arts tradition, the abstract are a key affection of Ateneo apprenticeship at all levels of study. In 2015, QS Top Universities placed the university's undergraduate programmes 461st in the apple and 114th in Asia.

University of Santo Tomas

The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, or artlessly the University of Santo Tomas (UST), is a private, Roman Catholic analysis university in Manila, Philippines. Founded on 28 April 1611 by Miguel de Benavides, Abbey of Manila, it has the oldest actual university allotment in the Philippines and in Asia, and is one of the world's better Catholic universities in agreement of acceptance begin on one campus.Run by the Order of Preachers, UST is aswell the better university in Manila.

UST is the alone university to accept been visited by three popes four times: already by Pope Paul VI on 28 November 1970, alert by Pope John Paul II on 18 February 1981 and 13 January 1995, and already by Pope Francis on 18 January 2015.The angel of the university is St. Thomas Aquinas, while St. Catherine of Alexandria is the patroness.

The university is composed of several free faculties, colleges, schools and institutes, anniversary appointment undergraduate, alum and postgraduate degrees, and the basal apprenticeship units. Several amount programs accept been accepted by the Commission on College Apprenticeship (CHED) as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development. Moreover, it was awarded with an Institutional Accreditation by the CHED through the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines. In December 2013, the university was accustomed to accept the accomplished amount of accepted programs in the country by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities' Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA).

Prominent Thomasians cover saints, Philippine presidents, heroes, artists, scientists, professionals, and religious figures, who accept ample noticeably in the history of the Philippines. The able-bodied teams are the Growling Tigers, who are associates of the University Able-bodied Association of the Philippines and are constant winners of the Overall Championship.

The foundation of the University is ascribed to Miguel de Benavides, O.P., the third Abbey of Manila. He came to the Philippines with the aboriginal Dominican mission in 1587. He went on to become abbey of Nueva Segovia, and was answer abbey of Manila in 1601. Upon his afterlife in July 1605, Benavides ancestral his library and claimed acreage account 1,500 pesos to be acclimated as the berry armamentarium for the enactment of an academy of college learning. Fr. Bernardo de Santa Catalina agitated out Benavides’s wishes and was able to defended a architecture abreast the Dominican abbey and abbey in Intramuros for the College.

In 1609, permission to accessible the College was requested from King Philip III of Spain, which alone accomplished Manila in 1611. On April 28, 1611, agent Juan Illian witnessed the signing of the act of foundation by Baltasar Fort, OP, Bernardo Navarro, OP, and Francisco Minayo, OP. Fort, appointed that year to the column of Father Provincial, became the abbey in 1619.

The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario was accustomed on April 28, 1611, from the Benavides's library. Later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomás, it was animated by Pope Innocent X to a university on November 20, 1645 in his brief, In Supreminenti. This makes the academy the aboriginal in the islands to be formally animated to the cachet of university.