Lyceum of the Philippines University

We thank you for choosing LPU, and we assure you of our commitment to fully support and provide you with what you came to us for: a well-rounded, relevant education that prepares you for the future and empowers you for success.
We have a vision of becoming a leading university in the Asia-Pacific region. Further, we have a clear road map to turn this into reality. And most importantly, we are right on track and are progressively gaining headway towards this goal.
We continuously enhance the curricula and innovate our program offerings to meet the demands of the respective industries. The quality of instruction and facilities is improved continuously—especially in Information and Communication Technology. We aim to develop environmentally-conscious stakeholders and are currently preparing for the Environment Management System (EMS) ISO 14001:2015 Certification in 2015. Meanwhile, we have sustained our Quality Management System - ISO 9001:2008 certification and maintained our Autonomous Status by CHED.
Our efforts have not gone unnoticed and have been applauded by reputable organizations. LPU received the Philippine Quality Award for commitment to Quality Management. We were awarded the People Program of the Year by the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP). Also, we are the country's First Educational Institution certified Investors-In-People by PMAP. Moreover, LPU's objectives are strengthened by its three capabilities-- Research, Instruction, and Community Extension. Its four Centers of Excellence: Tourism, Hospitality Management, Business Administration, and Customs Administration (of which LPU is the first Center of Excellence in the country), are endorsed to work in conjunction with other Filipino universities on a local level.
We were granted IQuAME Category A Teaching University and deputized Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) by CHED. We are the first university in the Philippines to be granted Full International Accreditation for HRM and Tourism (Undergraduate and Graduate Programs) by the International Centre of Excellence for Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE).
We possess Level 4 Reaccredited Status for HRM, Business Administration, Liberal Arts, and Science programs by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities on Accreditation (PACUCOA) and certified by Federation of Accrediting Agencies in the Philippines (FAAP).
We are the first university in the country to be granted Level 4 Reaccreditation Status for HRM program by PACUCOA and certified FAAP. PACUCOA accredits all our undergraduate programs. Also, we have Level 4 Institutional Accreditation by PACUCOA and certified by FAAP.
Lyceum of the Philippines University prides itself on its long and rich tradition of Academic excellence through the legacy of its founder, Dr. Jose P. Laurel. The only Philippine President to have served in all three branches of the Government, Dr. Laurel, was a successful lawyer, legislator, constitutionalist, jurist, writer, scholar, statesman, Philosopher, and above all things, an educator.Dr. Laurel's concern for education was his most abiding passion. A graduate of top educational institutions such as the University of the Philippines College of Law, Escuela de Derecho, the University of Santo Tomas, and Yale University, his credentials as an educator was unassailable. He wrote extensively on education and managed to teach in several educational institutions in Manila, despite his numerous commitments. During the Second World War, as the nation's leader during the darkest period in its history, he introduced educational policies that emphasized and upheld national morale and character.
The inspiration to establish a school came to him in the early 1920s while a student at Yale. Three decades later, along with some of his close friends, he turned this dream into a reality. To become a center of academic excellence in the Philippines and the Far East, Lyceum of the Philippines University (as it is now known) formally opened its doors to the public on July 7, 1952. With his admiration for knowledge and his appreciation of classical thought, Dr. Laurel named the school Lyceum of the Philippines after Lykeios, the site in ancient Athens where the great Philosopher Aristotle nurtured his protegees' minds. The school's motto, "Veritas et Fortitudo," "Pro Deo et Patria," reflects Dr. Laurel's belief in the value of learning and character formation for God and country.
Unfortunately, Dr. Laurel unexpectedly died in 1959. On his third son Sotero, who was then in the law practice, fell the mantle of responsibility of running the school. He was the natural choice as, in years earlier, Senator Sotero helped his father organize LPU and acted as the first executive secretary to his father. For the next forty-three years, it was this chosen son, Sotero, who nurtured the school and made it grow beyond Manila into the provinces. In 1966, he founded the Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas, followed by the Philippines-Laguna's Lyceum in 2000. Both campuses are now headed by Senator Laurel's fourth son Dr. Peter P. Laurel. In 2008, another campus in Cavite was established to bring the total number of LPU campuses to five with approximately 37,000 students, about 15,000 of whom are enrolled in various hospitality courses. Senator Laurel's eldest son, Atty. Roberto P. Laurel heads the Manila, Makati, and Cavite campuses.