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The Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, O.P. Building, or simply the Frassati Building, is a 23-storey building in Sampaloc, Manila in the Philippines. It is part of the building complex of the University of Santo Tomas. The University will rename the building from 'blessed' to 'saint' once Frassati is officially declared a saint. [1] [2]
The following is a list of buildings at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Sampaloc, Manila.. The university sits on an almost perfect square of 21.5 hectares. The university transferred to its present campus in 1927 when the Dominicans deemed the Intramuros campus inadequate for the university's growing population.
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.
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 Central Seminary of the University of Santo Tomas was designed by Fernando Hizon Ocampo Sr. It was built in the 1930s. The plan of the seminary was configured in the form of the letter E, with courtyards bisecting the wings.
The building houses both the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters and UST College of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Previously, it served as the classrooms for UST Senior High School before they relocated to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Building in 2019. [2]
After the war, UST resumed operation, holding classes in the building. The university and the building was visited by Pope Paul VI in 1970 [2] and Pope John Paul II in 1995 when UST hosted World Youth Day 1995. In 2015, Pope Francis became the third pope to visit the university, but did not enter the building.
The UST Angelicum College, officially the University of Santo Tomas - Angelicum College is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution run by the Philippine Dominican Province of the Order of Preachers located in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was founded in July 1972 by the Dominican priest Rev. Fr. Rogelio B. Alarcon ...