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.