UP BGC to Start Holding Classes This Coming School Year

UP BGC

Photo from: up.edu.ph (Photo by Misael Bacani, UPSIO)

University of the Philippines’ (UP) satellite campus in Bonifacio Global City (BGC), which was built at a cost of around P400 million and donated by the SM conglomerate led by tycoon Henry Sy Sr., will start holding postgraduate courses this coming school year.

The UP College of Law will offer an evening Juris Doctor program at UP BGC while the Cesar E. Virata School of Business will offer MBA and DBA classes starting 2017.

Other UP Diliman units that will offer postgraduate studies at UP BGC include: College of of Engineering; School of Statistics; School of Urban and Regional Planning; School of Labor and Industrial Relations; and College of Architecture.

The nine-storey UP campus has 29 classrooms, three laboratories, faculty lounges, an auditorium, a study area, a moot court or a venue for simulated court proceedings for law students, a multi-purpose hall, discussion rooms, office spaces and an executive lounge.

The campus also has a multive-level basement parking.

UP BGC is located on 32nd St., almost along C5.

It is 17th campus in the country of the UP System.

What do you think of this new UP satellite campus?