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UP alumni, researchers recognized by the NAST PHL as outstanding Filipino scientists

UP Women’s Football Team visits PAJ

Members of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Women’s Football Team paid a courtesy visit to UP President Angelo Jimenez at the UP Board of Regents Room in Quezon Hall on 14 June 2023. The varsity team...
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UP still stellar in 2nd licensure exam for architects for 2023

All architecture graduates of the University of the Philippines (UP)—50 from UP Diliman (UPD) and 26 from UP Mindanao (UPMin)—aced the June 2023 Licensure Examination for Architects (LEA). UPD emerged as the top performing school, having met the...
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Announcements

UP moves up in QS World University Rankings

Update on Google Workspace Storage Utilization

The University has received numerous requests to reconsider the setting of the maximum storage capacity for each user under the Google Workspace for Education (GWE) subscription. The University is suspending, until further notice, the implementation of the maximum Google...
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Official Statement on Google Workspace Storage Utilization

A study of data supplied by the UP ITDC indicates that the current Google Workspace storage utilization of the entire UP System is 4.3. Petabyte (PB). The UP administration has decided that UP will subscribe to shared storage space...
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The Premier National University

The University of the Philippines (UP) is the country’s national university. This premier institution of higher learning was established in 1908 and is now a university system composed of eight constituent universities spread throughout 17 campuses all over the archipelago.

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Philosophy of Education
and Graduate Attributes

A UP education seeks to produce graduates imbued with an abiding sense of responsibility to their people and nation, the skills and mindsets to improve human life, and a commitment to the freedom and welfare of all.

Aside from mastery of knowledge in their specific disciplines, UP graduates must possess breadth of mind, strength of character, and generosity of spirit, fostered by a firm grounding in both the arts and sciences, and such specialist courses as their programs may require.

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Constituent Universities

Much has changed in UP over the past 100 years. From one campus in Manila, it now has eight constituent universities and one autonomous college in 17 campuses all over the country. It also offers 258 undergraduate programs and 438 graduate programs to students from almost every region in the country.

From the education of ordinary Filipinos under Americans at the time of UP President Murray Bartlett to its journey onto another century under the stewardship of President Angelo Jimenez, the university has produced at least 37 National Scientists; at least 50 National Artists; 7 out of the 16 Presidents of the Republic; 15 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court; at least 15,000 doctors; 8,000 lawyers; 15,000 engineers; 23,000 teachers and hundreds of thousands of graduates in other academic fields.

For the past 115 years, the University of the Philippines has proven itself worthy of the title of the country’s national university. Surviving world wars, colonial occupations, civil rights struggles and cultural upheavals, economic downturns and upsurges, UP has played a role in shaping the nation’s political and social consciousness, and ultimately helping to define the national identity.