University of the Philippines Manila

The University of the Philippines Manila (UP Manila) is one of the eight constituent universities of the University of the Philippines (UP) System. It is a public and secular institution of higher learning that offers academic and training programs and extension services in the health sciences, health professions education, arts, and sciences. 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.
UP Manila dedicates itself to the inviolability and dignity of the human person. It shall ever be responsive to the Filipino People's needs and aspirations, sensitive to the ideals and values of humanity, the pursuit of truth and freedom through critical thinking, the achievement of social justice, and the institutionalization of the democratic way of life.
The University of the Philippines Manila shall continuously strive to become an outstanding, dynamic, cohesive, and relevant institution of higher learning by integrating the health sciences units and the College of Arts and Sciences. Thus, it shall provide the highest quality of advanced instruction, professional training, basic and applied research, and community service and produce outstanding scholars, practitioners, and leaders in the fields of health, the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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. Each course's entrance requirements shall be prescribed by the faculty of the college offering the course and approved by the University Council and the President 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.
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 change in status 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.
The Office of Continuing Education was created as the Office of Extension and Continuing Education in 1993 during Former Chancellor Perla Santos Ocampo. In 2000, the office was moved under the supervision of the Office of the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod; thus, the unit became known as the Office of the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod and Continuing Education. In July 2006, Chancellor Ramon Arcadio transferred the Office of Continuing Education's supervision from the Ugnayan Pahinungod to NGOHS on an experimental basis to further improve work efficiency UP Manila.
International students seeking admission to the University shall be required to meet all the program's prescribed entrance requirements. Their previous training was obtained in an institution of recognized standing and provided further a place for them in the college or school.