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UPCAT test centers are found in major schools throughout the Philippines, including all UP campuses. Close to 100,000 applicants take the UPCAT yearly, with almost 40,000 in UP Diliman alone. Because the campus is open and connected to major public roads, heavy traffic is expected at this time of year.
The fraternities and sororities in UP Diliman are UP Delta Lambda Sigma sorority (which produced Senator Pia Cayetano), UP Portia sorority (which produced UP Law dean Fides Cordero-Tan and Chief Justices Maria Lourdes Sereno and Teresita de Castro), Alpha Phi Beta fraternity (which produced Chief Justice Reynato Puno and Governor Francis ...
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.
On June 18, 1908, the University of the Philippines was established through an act of the First Philippine Legislature. Act No. 1870, otherwise known as the "University Act", specified the function of the university, which is to provide advanced instruction in literature, philosophy, the sciences and arts, and to administer professional and technical training.
The college also holds extension classes at the Bonifacio Global City campus of UP Diliman in Taguig [7] and the Iloilo City campus of UP Visayas. [8] UP Law is noted for having produced the largest number of bar topnotchers [broken anchor] and maintaining one of the highest bar passing rates [broken anchor] among law schools in the Philippines ...
It is the largest degree-granting unit in the UP System in terms of student population and is also known formally as UP COE, COE, and informally as Engg (pronounced "eng"). The college of Engineering is composed of eight departments, three of which are housed in the historic Melchor Hall along Osmeña Avenue in the U.P. Diliman campus. These ...
The Calderon Hall and the University of the Philippines College of Medicine was the only UP unit that was open and functional during the height of the Second World War, to provide medical services needed during that time. [citation needed] After the War, the building was rehabilitated in 1951 under the leadership of Dr. Agerico Sison.
Main entrance to Rizal Hall, home of the former UP College Manila. With the clamor to meet the health science education needs of the growing population, a Health Sciences Center within the University of the Philippines was created through the passage of RA 5163 on June 17, 1967.