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The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, officially designated as Republic Act 10931, is a Philippine law that institutionalizes free tuition and exemption from other fees in state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local universities and colleges (LUCs) in the Philippines. The law also foresees subsidies for private higher ...
Legal education in the Philippines is developed and offered by Philippine law schools, supervised by the Legal Education Board.Previously, the Commission on Higher Education supervises the legal education in the Philippines but was replaced by the Legal Education Board since 1993 after the enactment of Republic Act No. 7662 or the Legal Education Reform Act of 1993.
The city government implemented a full tuition fee subsidy and miscellaneous fees, including the school ID, library fee, medical fee, newsletter, handbook, laboratory fee, sports fee, multimedia fee and guidance and counseling fee in September 2016. In 2018, a new PLV campus officially opened situated at the bosom of the City.
In 2013, the PUP is one of the first law schools in the Philippines which offered a Juris Doctor program. This was before the Legal Education Board uniformed the Bachelor of Laws degree to Juris Doctor degree in 2018. The 2016 Bar Examination marks the first breakthrough in the PUPCOL history.
Justice Dante O. Tinga – Ll.B. 1974; retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; served as a three-term Congressman of Taguig-Pateros district; former Dean of the University of the East College of Law and Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Law; 15th Placer, 1974 Bar Exams [13] [14]
The college started accepting applicants in Academic Year (AY) 2009-2010 and started its classes in AY 2010-2011 with the Juris Doctor program, a four-year professional degree.
It was likewise the country's top performing law school, with a passing rate of 89.73%, in the 2015 bar exams. [26] Since 2019, UP Law is ranked 251-300 in the QS World University Rankings among all law schools in the world. [27] It is the sole Philippine law school in the list.
Name Type [a] Location Year established Year granted university status [b] Regulation status [c]; Binalatongan Community College LUC San Carlos, Pangasinan 2006