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.