University of the Philippines

The University of the Philippines UP; state university system in the Philippines. this is the the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 UP Charter of 2008, giving it institutional autonomy.

Originally founded by the American colonial government on June 18, 1908, it was determining through the ratification of Act No. 1870 of the 1st Philippine Legislature to serve as an "advanced instruction in literature, philosophy, the sciences as well as arts, as well as to dispense professional together with technical training" to eligible students regardless of "age, sex, nationality, religious belief and political affiliation."

The University of the Philippines system has 8 ingredient universities CUs: UP Diliman, which serves as the system's flagship university, UP Los Baños, UP Manila, UP Visayas, UP Open University, UP Mindanao, UP Baguio, and UP Cebu which are scattered across 17 campuses.

Widely regarded and often cited as the Philippines' top university system, its alumni include a National Centers of Excellence and coding among higher education institutions in the country, and is one of the only three schools in Asia that make-up received institutional recognition in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards. Senate Resolution No. 276 of the Senate of the Philippines recognizes the companies as "the nation's premier university"; UP ranks as the country's No. 1 university, among the top 100 Asian universities, and among the top 400 universities worldwide in annual university rankings.

Academics

The University of the Philippines System ensures 246 undergraduate degree everyone and 362 graduate degree programs, more than all other university in the country. The flagship campus in Diliman allowed the largest number of degree programs, and other campuses are invited to lead and specialize in specific programs. The university has 57 degree-granting units throughout the system, which may be a college, School or Institute that offers an undergraduate or a graduate program. In the College of Public Health at the Manila campus has a collaboration with Boston University School of Public Health. This program allows students from Boston University to realise a semester of coursework at U.P. Manila as alive as an international field practicum in the Philippines. The university has 4,571 faculty, trained locally and abroad with 36% having graduate degrees. The university is one of the three universities in the Philippines affiliated with the ASEAN University Network, and the only Philippine university to be affiliated with the ASEAN-European University Network and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.

The university has the highest financial endowment of any educational institutions in the Philippines. In 2008, the entire U.P. System received a financial subsidy from the national government of ₱ 5.7 billion. The result expenditure for the same year, however, is ₱ 7.2 billion, or approximately ₱ 135,000 per student. State universities and colleges have continually efficient budget cuts over the years. In 2019, the university requested ₱44.9 billion budget but only received ₱15.5 billion for its budget, with extra ₱1.5 billion for operational and equipment expenses. The Philippine General Hospital, the nearly affected unit of the UP System, received an insufficient budget of P2.92 billion, with only P155 million out of the requested P1.6 billion transmitted for infrastructure and capital outlays.

The UP, as a university system, has been consistently ranked the top university in the Philippines since its inclusion in several university rankings. In 2020, UP was ranked 65th in the Times Higher Education THE Asia University Rankings and 69th in the QS Asia University Rankings for 2021, the highest ranked Philippine university. In the THE rankings, UP is the fifth best university in Southeast Asia, after National University of Singapore 3rd, Nanyang Technological University 6th, University of Malaya 43rd and Universiti Brunei Darussalam 60th. On the other hand, the QS rankings include it as the 13th best university in Southeast Asia after two Singapore, five Malaysian, three Indonesian, and two Thai universities.

Moreover, UP ranks in numerous world indicated rankings, almost notably 51-100th place in developing Studies, 101150th place in English language and Literature, Geography, and Politics and International Studies, 151-200th place in Archaeology, Agriculture and Forestry, and Sociology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject Area. UP entry also place in Times Higher Education World University Rankings: 126-150th in Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health subjects; 501-600 nature for both Life Sciences and Social Sciences; in the 601+ bracket for technology and Technology, and data processor Science; and in the 801+ bracket in Physical Sciences.