Dan Esponilla Dalac, Top Story, Communication Management Office, Publications Office
Around 70,000 new and old students flocked to the 22 branches and campuses of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines for the first day of Academic Year 2015-2016.
PUP expects this year’s student population at the main campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila to exceed 35,000. Its branches and campuses in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog and Bicol project a combined enrollment of over 25,000.
The country’s first polytechnic and largest state university had an undergraduate student population of 64,551 in the 1st semester and 61,416 in the 2nd semester of AY 2014-2015. These figures included 10,860 first year students who passed the annual PUP College Entrance Test (PUPCET).
This year’s General Appropriations Act or Republic Act No. 10651 earmarked P1.048 billion for PUP. The GAA stipulates that P707.689 million of the PUP budget is for personnel services, P246.561 million is for maintenance and other operating expenses, and P94.551 million is for capital outlays. National government subsidy amounts to P16,000 per student in the current fiscal year.
PUP has the lowest tuition at P12.00 per academic unit, a rate it has maintained since 1984. Set to mark its 111th founding anniversary this year, it began as the Manila Business School in October 1904. The institution was renamed Philippine School of Commerce in 1908 and Philippine College of Commerce in 1952. It was converted into a chartered state university on April 1, 1978 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1341.
(Photos by James Ona)
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