UP GOES "FORT"!

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UP going Global with satellite campus

The University of the Philippines will soon build a satellite campus at the Fort Bonifacio Global City, thus joining the growing family of business corporations and institutions at the former military camp.

Dean Santiago, vice president of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority said the UP Professional Schools in BGC will cater to law students and those pursuing graduate studies in business administration and engineering.

“It will also have a school for statistics,” Santiago said.

The UP expansion project will rise on a 4,300-square meter lot within the institutional area located at the northeast side of the Global City which is accessible from the C-5 Road, Santiago pointed out.

The UP satellite campus will be the newest addition to the schools housed in BGC’s institutional area that include the International School Manila, British School Manila, Manila Japanese School, Manila Gospel-New Life Christian Academy, and Every Nation Leadership Institute (formerly Victory Leadership).

Santiago described the site as “very ideal and conducive” for studying because it is very accessible for students residing in Makati and other areas in southern and western Metro Manila, as well as adjacent towns and cities in the suburbs.

“They (students) would be spared of the perennial traffic jams on EDSA on the way to Diliman,” Santiago said.

The establishment of the UP presence in Global City is part of the ten-point agenda which the UP Board of Regents approved at the start of UP President Emerlinda Roman’s term. Since then, the UP Administration has been looking around for a location for the offering of courses that would cater to the students who work/live in the Makati and Taguig areas.