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The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Los Baños), also referred to as UP Los Baños or colloquially as Elbi (pronounced), is a public research university primarily located in the towns of Los Baños and Bay in the province of Laguna, some 65 kilometers southeast of Manila.
The Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) is an association of public tertiary school level institutions in the Philippines.These comprises all 102 State Universities and Colleges (SUC) which are under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). [1]
The Big Four refers to the top four universities in the Philippines: the University of the Philippines System (UP), Ateneo de Manila University (Ateneo), De La Salle University (DLSU), and the University of Santo Tomas (UST), all located in Metro Manila — although UP is scattered across eight constituent universities, located in different parts of the Philippines.
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 University of Eastern Philippines (Filipino: Pamantasan ng Silangang Pilipinas [1]) is the first state university in the Visayas. It offers the largest number of undergraduate and graduate degree programs and short-term courses and certificates among the higher education institutions in the Eastern Visayas region.
The campus was established in 1909 on 72.63 ha (179.5 acres) of abandoned farmland at the foot of Mount Makiling, purchased by the University of the Philippines (UP) Board of Regents to serve as the campus of the newly created UP College of Agriculture (UPCA). Students helped clear the land, and the first classes were held in tents.
In 1972, UPCA requested Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to allow the college to secede from the University of the Philippines due to the alleged withholding of its budget and the disapproval of curricular proposals. [20] However, UP President Salvador P. Lopez strongly opposed the idea. A survey also found that there was very little ...
The university has since seen applications for the UPCAT exceeding 100,000 annually since 2017, the first time that the first K+12 system graduates have taken the examinations. In 2019, with RA 10931 enforced, institutionalizing free tuition across state universities and colleges (SUCs), a record-high 90,426 applicants took the test.