University of Manila

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As the country's leading institution in health education, research, and public service, UP Manila seeks to significantly improve people's health and help the country sustain its health gains. How the University fulfills this mission is a vast and constant challenge to its faculty, staff, students, and alumni and which this website seeks to affirm.
We hope that you will find in this website relevant information and facts on our graduate and undergraduate programs, admission and enrolment processes, student services, scholarships, researches, public service programs, and the distinguished alumni that UP Manila had produced and nurtured through the years.
No student shall be denied admission to the University because of age, sex, nationality, religious belief, or political affiliation. Every applicant for admission shall undergo a thorough health examination. No person shall be admitted to this University found by the University Health Service to be with a dangerous, communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or physically unfit to take the courses in any college of the University.
The University of the Philippines Manila has been offering graduate programs since 1930. These programs have been directly under the administration and governance of the different colleges offering them. In 1985, a nationwide survey of graduate degree programs offered by the different colleges and universities in the health sciences showed that existing graduate offerings in the health and health-related professions of non-UP Manila institutions were minimal.
When UP Manila was reorganized in 1987, an Office of Graduate and Continuing Education (OGCE) was created to coordinate its graduate and continuing education programs. Dr. Ophelia M. Mendoza chaired the OGCE. When Dr. Perla D. Santos Ocampo assumed the chancellorship in September 1993, the need to upgrade the OGCE into a graduate school was expressed in consonance with the University's current thrust to lead graduate education and research.
The proposal for establishing a graduate school in UP Manila was approved by the Board of Regents on 22 June 1995. On 27 July 1995, Dr. Veronica F. Chan, a microbiology professor and Virology professor at the College of Public Health (CPH) was appointed the graduate school's acting dean. She drafted the rules and regulations governing the Graduate School in consultation with the different degree-granting units' deans. The University Council subsequently approved the rules of UP Manila.
A year after this creation, Dr. Isidro C. Sia, a Pharmacology professor at the College of Medicine (CM), was appointed Dean of the Graduate School. Appointed as Graduate School Secretary was Prof Ma. Estela M. Layug of the College of Nursing (CN) until she was designated as the UPM Registrar. Dr. Lilia M. Reyes (CPH) took over her post and later became the officer-in-charge of the Graduate School on 18 December 1997. In September 1998, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Lourdes E. Abadingo, served as the officer-in-charge until Dr. Emilie G. Flores, a professor of Nutrition (CPH), was appointed dean in November 1998.
The Graduate School, in coordination with the eight degree-granting units, enriched existing graduate programs and developed new programs attuned to meet the health workforce needs of the country and that of the Southeast Asian countries. Chancellor Santos Ocampo strongly felt the timely need and relevance of the Graduate School's national status to accelerate the development of a globally competitive graduate education system for UP Manila. The status change would better uphold the UP vision of becoming the Philippine's education system's apex and base. Dr. Flores developed briefing documents after a series of consultations with key persons from different colleges of the different autonomous units of the UP System, Commission on Higher Education, and some private institutions. With the continued support from Chancellor Santos Ocampo and UP President Emil Q.Javier, the Graduate School was transmogrified into the National Graduate School for the Health Sciences (SHS). The Board of Regents in its 1130th meeting approved the national status of the Graduate School on 15 April 1999.
At present, of the 84 graduate science courses being offered by the country's 88 institutions, 66 are being administered by UP Manila through the efforts of its 1,051 full-time and part-time graduate faculty from eight degree-granting units. The graduate programs include eight doctoral tracks, 39 masters, nine diploma, three certificate courses, and one introductory course. The final year of both Chancellor Santos Ocampo and President Javier gave birth to various non-vertically articulated graduate programs. Twenty-one (21) new graduate program tracks were developed from November 1998 to May 1999 by the different degree-granting units in coordination with the NGSHS for AY 1999-2000 offerings. Four of these new programs are non-vertically articulated, multidisciplinary programs.
The Board of Regents in its 1171st meeting approved the conversion of the national status of the Graduate School to the National Graduate Office for the Health Sciences (NGOHS) on 30 May 2003. Under her three-year term, several programs were also opened, such as Diploma in Bioethics and Diploma in Preventive Ophthalmology. Marketing strategies became more assertive by giving out promotional posters and newspaper advertisements. When Dr. Isidro C. Sia took over as Director, additional masters program were introduced: MS Health Informatics, MS Bioethics, M Physical Therapy, MS Genetic Counseling, M Medical Anthropology, and MS Medical Anthropology.
Riding high on the crest of academic excellence, the UP Manila NGOHS shall continue to pursue growth points responsive to the demands for excellence and leadership in the health science professions with the ardent synergistic strengths of humanities, arts, and social sciences. It envisions to create a ripple effect at the threshold of the century as it expands globally competitive role in teaching, research, extension, and production of technology that can improve the quality of life.

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