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, as well as 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 contribute significantly to the improvement of the people’s health and help the country sustain its health gains. How the university fulfills this mission is a huge 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 needs and aspirations of the Filipino People, 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 constantly strive to become an outstanding, dynamic, cohesive and relevant institution of higher learning with the integration of 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 who is physically unfit to take the courses in any college of the University. The entrance requirements for each course 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 very limited.
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. The OGCE was chaired by Dr Ophelia M. Mendoza. 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 current thrust of the University to lead in graduate education and research.The proposal for the establishment of 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 professor of Microbiology and Virology at the College of Public Health (CPH), was appointed acting dean of the Graduate School. She drafted the rules and regulations governing the Graduate School in consultation with the deans of the different degree-granting units. The rules were subsequently approved by the University Council 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 manpower needs of the country and that of the Southeast Asian countries. Chancellor Santos Ocampo strongly felt the timely need and relevance of a national status of the Graduate School 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 apex and base of the Philippines education system. Briefing documents were developed by Dr. Flores 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 then UP President Emil Q.Javier, the Graduate School was transmogrified into the National Graduate School for the Health Sciences (NGSHS). The Board of Regents in its 1130th meeting approved the national status of the Graduate School on 15 April 1999.
The Office of the Continuing Education was created as the Office of Extension and Continuing Education in 1993 during the term of 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 supervision of the Office of the Continuing Education from the Ugnayan Pahinungod to NGOHS, on an experimental basis to further improve efficiency of work at UP Manila.
International students seeking admission to the University shall be required to meet all prescribed entrance requirements for the program; provided that their previous training was obtained in an institution of recognized standing; and provided further, that there is a place for them in the college or school.
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