University of the Philippines

The University of the Philippines (UP; ) is a state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 (UP Charter of 2008), giving it institutional autonomy.

The University of the Philippines was originally established by the American colonial government on June 18, 1908, through the enactment of [https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/13589 Act No. 1870] by the First Philippine Legislature. It was envisioned as the country’s premier institution for higher learning with a mandate to provide "advanced instruction in literature, philosophy, the sciences, and the arts and to give professional and technical training," regardless of "age, sex, nationality, religious belief, or political affiliation."

The University of the Philippines’ founding academic units were established primarily in Manila, and in Los Baños, Laguna. U.P. then expanded to Diliman in 1949, which became the nucleus of the entire university. Today, the university is composed of eight autonomous constituent universities (CUs) and one autonomous college: UP Diliman, which hosts the central administration of the system, UP Los Baños, UP Manila, UP Visayas, UP Open University, UP Mindanao, UP Baguio, UP Cebu, UP Tacloban which are distributed across 17 campuses nationwide. Provided by Wikipedia