At the 112th General Commencement Exercises of UP Diliman (UPD), 305 students graduated summa cum laude. This is the most number of graduates who received the highest honor awarded by the University in a single class. They led the 4,478 graduates–3,359 at the undergraduate level and 1,119 at the graduate level. Out of those who completed their undergraduate degree programs, 1,196 graduated magna cum laude (with a weighted average grade of 1.45 or higher) and 742, cum laude (with a WAG of 1.75 or higher). The summa cum laude graduates…

All 12 examinees from the UP Diliman (UPD) School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) passed the September 2022 Librarian Licensure Examination (LLE). The SLIS emerged as the top-performing school with a 100 percent passing rate. Alfonso. Photo from Alfonso Marzo Meco Alfonso nabbed the top notch with his 88.2 percent rating. Joining him in the top 10 were August Emmanuel Florese (2nd place, 87.75%), Paul Martin Jequinto (3rd place, 87.65%), John Arjude Gerona (4th place, 87.60%), Beatrice Bernardin Tan…

The UP Diliman Executive Committee expresses solidarity with the Lumad Bakwit Schools, their students and volunteer teachers who have experienced harassment from state forces in their last remaining schools in UCCP Haran in Davao, the University of San Carlos in Cebu, and the University of the Philippines Diliman in Manila. As a national university with a clear mandate of public service, our support of the lumad in their continuing efforts to finish their education because of and despite the closure of their community-built indigenous schools is true to our mission of upholding honor, excellence, and compassion, and…

(SEPT. 9)—UP Diliman ranked first among the top performing schools (those who fielded 25 or more examinees and with at least 85% passing percentage) in the August 2019 Registered Electrical Engineer Licensure Examination, with all 33 of its examinees passing on their first try. This gives the University a University a 100 percent passing rate, a ranking it shares with University of Batangas. Jake Michael Canta Cruz, a graduate of the College of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, placed 7th in the with a 91.30 rating. According to…

(SEPT. 2)—Andryx Lyndon Martinez, a graduate of the College of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, ranked 8th in the August 2019 Mechanical Engineer Licensure Examination with a 93 percent rating. Martinez is among the 73 examinees from UP Diliman who passed, giving the University a 97.33 percent passing rate and making it one of the top performing schools among the institutions who fielded 50 or more examinees. According to the Professional Regulation Commission website, of the 5,560 applicants, 3,928 passed the licensure examinations last Aug. 25 and…

(JUN. 28)—The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) will graduate some 5,000 students led by 54 summa cum laude at the University’s 108th General Commencement Exercises on June 30, 7 a.m. at the University Amphitheater. Summa cum laude.  Summa cum laude, a Latin phrase meaning “with the greatest honors,” is the university’s highest academic distinction for graduates who earn a weighted average grade (WAG) of 1.20 or better. The 54 top honors come from 11 degree-granting units from UPD’s four clusters: Science and Technology (S&T), Social Sciences and Law (SS&L), Management and Economics (M&E),…

(MAY 30)⎯Over 20 researches from the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) were featured in its first student research colloquium, held on May 20 at the University Library Lobby.  The morning session consisted of undergraduate students presenting research proposals while the afternoon session was devoted to graduate-level research.  Two classes were involved. LIS 271 (Seminar in Philippine Librarianship) gave poster presentations of their studies while the members of LIS 290 (Special Problem) gave oral presentations.  Among the studies on the poster presentations were the creation of a library for…

(JUN. 16)–UP Diliman (UPD) graduate Kim Robert C. de Leon notched the top spot in the June 2016 Environmental Planning Licensure Examination where 542 out of 1,010 examinees passed. De Leon, who garnered a rating of 83.50 percent, finished with a BA Public Administration degree (magna cum laude) from the National College of Public Administration and Governance. Four other UPD graduates also made it to the top 10 – Maria Teresa S. Alambra (Top 2, 82.60%), Christian R. Buted (Top 3, 82.45%), Abigail P. Sunga…

Foreign Transfer Admission  Foreign students with credits for college-level coursework should meet the University requirements for transfer students. A TOEFL score of at least 500 (paper-based), or at least 173 (computer-based), or at least 61 (internet-based test) is required of applicants whose medium of instruction in schools they attended is not English . Applicants transferring from another Philippine school should secure from DepEd a permit to…

A delegation from the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Engineering (COE) just finished the Visayas and Mindanao visits of its series of consultations with other higher education institutions (HEIs) about the shared challenges and opportunities they face in Philippine graduate engineering education. The latest of Exploratory Discussions on Collaborative Effort to Scale Up Graduate Engineering Education Nationwide, a series of consultations with HEIs, was held from June 27 to July 1 and was organized in partnership with UP Cebu. The delegation meets with…