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The University of Santo Tomas General Santos (UST; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas General Santos) is a private, Catholic higher education institution in General Santos, Philippines. The UST General Santos is the first UST campus in Visayas and Mindanao. It is an extension campus of UST Manila. The Main Building of the campus opened in 2024.
The UST Junior High School offers courses as mandated by the Department of Education on the Basic Education Curriculum. Integration and addition of certain courses are on the testing stage in line with the first ever accreditation attempt of the High School for its 80 years of existence.
Currently, the UST Senior High School is situated on the 10th to 15th floors of the Frassati Building, positioned in the southeastern part adjacent to the UST campus and connected via a link bridge. The College of Information and Computing Sciences also shares the building, which occupies the 18th to 20th levels.
Other universities follow a 5-Point Scale, wherein the highest grade is a 1.00 and the lowest is a 5.00 (failing mark). The lowest passing mark is actually a 3.00. Although usually not depicted, a grade of 4.00 is equivalent to a grade of incomplete. If the school does not use the grade point "4.00", it will use "INC" instead.
As of July 2024, PACUCOA has accredited 59 programs of the university. UST also has the most Level IV accredited programs, with 27. [225] [226] UST became an associate member of the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) group in 2016. [227] [228] In 2020, it was the first associate member to receive an institutional certification ...
The campus was inaugurated on April 19, 2006, which was led by then UST Manila rector Tamerlane Lana and attended by board member and tycoon Lucio Tan. [4] [5]The construction of the campus was delayed for several years by changes in the administration, the Quadricentennial Celebration from 2009 to 2012, and the prioritization of the projects in UST Manila.
The board of trustees of UST Angelicum College is composed of 12 representatives from UST Manila and three from UST Angelicum College. [6] [3] Angelicum College's signature non-graded system of education is retained. UST–Legazpi has fiscal and administrative independence from the main campus. The rector and board of trustees are also different.
The Education High School (EHS) is a separate institution from the UST High School. EHS was established to give Catholic education to students who cannot afford to pay the fees required by other schools. It also serves as the training ground for fourth year BSE students of the UST College of Education. This laboratory school was established ...