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The University Graduate School was established by the UP Board of Regents on October 26, 1950 and is mandated to administer the graduate programs in the Los Baños unit through a sub-committee. The UPLB Graduate school was formally established on December 21, 1972 upon the establishment of the autonomous units of the university under the UP System.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is one of the eleven degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.It is the largest college in University of the Philippines System which offers most of the general education subjects required of UPLB students, as well as the highest number of degree programs in the University.
Founded in 1909 as the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture, [5] it is the oldest constituent of UPLB, [6] and is one of the four founding units of the university upon its establishment in 1972. [7] The college offers 4 undergraduate degree programs while its graduate programs are offered through the Graduate School. [8]
Applicants must specify two campuses in order of preference from the U.P. System's seven constituent universities, one autonomous college (Tacloban College), and one satellite campus (Extension Program in Pampanga under UP Diliman).
Equipment and facilities are estimated to be worth ₱10.6 billion (US$245 million) [4] according to UPLB's financial statement for 2009. [needs update] [5] The university manages eight student dormitories inside the campus, which housed 2,170 of the 11,980 students enrolled in 2008. [6] [7]
The 1,098 ha (2,710-acre) Los Baños campus houses UPLB's academic facilities, as well as experimental farms for agriculture and biotechnology research. [5] The more prominent buildings in the Los Baños campus, such as the Dioscoro L. Umali Hall, Main Library, and Student Union were designed by National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin. [40]
The campus of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, referred to as the "upper campus", is situated on the northeastern slope of Mount Makiling. [20] The campus contains academic buildings, dormitories, hosted institutions (such as the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity), [21] and the 4,347-hectare [22] Makiling Forest Reserve (MFR), which serves as an outdoor laboratory for forestry ...
During the booming years of the Philippine Sugar industry in 1920, The UPCA (now UPLB College of Agriculture and Food Science) offered a degree program in sugar technology aiming to train students in the cane production, sugar chemistry and sugar factory operations. With recent developments after the World War II, the sugar technology program ...