University of the Philippines Los Baños (Los Baños)
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University of the Philippines Los Baños (U.P. Los Baños, U.P.L.B. or colloquially LB) is an autonomous constituent university of the University of the Philippines System situated at the foot of Mount Makiling in Los Baños, Laguna. It was founded by American botanist and agriculturist Edwin Copeland on March 6, 1909 as the College of Agriculture, one of the first two units of the University of the Philippines.
The University has one of the largest campuses in the Philippines and is the largest constituent university of the University of the Philippines System with a total land area of 147 km² or four times the size of the city of Manila. Ninety-two percent (92%) of UPLB's land is dedicated to research and is made up of a forest reserve, field laboratories and greenhouses spread out across Laguna and Negros Occidental.
Its nine colleges and two schools offer over a hundred degree programs ranging from communication arts to genetics. The Philippines' Commission on Higher Education has accredited nine programs as Centers of Excellence and two as Centers of Development. Six research institutes were also recognized as Centers of Excellence by the President of the Philippines.
UPLB is likewise the only university in the country to receive a Ramon Magsaysay Award as well as a KBP Golden Dove Award-Philippine media's most prestigious trophy.
Alumni from UPLB include 16 of 31 national scientists, four Nobel Prize co-winners,[10] all of the five Filipino fellows of the Third World Academy of Sciences,[11] at least 30 of 87 academicians of the National Academy of Science and Technology[12] and five Palanca Award winners. It has also produced leaders in industry, government and the academe.
Website: uplb.edu.ph/index.php/home
The University has one of the largest campuses in the Philippines and is the largest constituent university of the University of the Philippines System with a total land area of 147 km² or four times the size of the city of Manila. Ninety-two percent (92%) of UPLB's land is dedicated to research and is made up of a forest reserve, field laboratories and greenhouses spread out across Laguna and Negros Occidental.
Its nine colleges and two schools offer over a hundred degree programs ranging from communication arts to genetics. The Philippines' Commission on Higher Education has accredited nine programs as Centers of Excellence and two as Centers of Development. Six research institutes were also recognized as Centers of Excellence by the President of the Philippines.
UPLB is likewise the only university in the country to receive a Ramon Magsaysay Award as well as a KBP Golden Dove Award-Philippine media's most prestigious trophy.
Alumni from UPLB include 16 of 31 national scientists, four Nobel Prize co-winners,[10] all of the five Filipino fellows of the Third World Academy of Sciences,[11] at least 30 of 87 academicians of the National Academy of Science and Technology[12] and five Palanca Award winners. It has also produced leaders in industry, government and the academe.
Website: uplb.edu.ph/index.php/home
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPLB
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Coordinates: 14°8'18"N 121°13'15"E
- University of the Philippines Los Baños - Upper Campus and Makiling Forest Reserves 5.1 km
- Laguna State Polytechnic University - Los Baños Campus 5.7 km
- University of Perpetul Help System Dalta - Calamba Campus 13 km
- Malayan Colleges Laguna 17 km
- University of the East - Laguna 19 km
- Oblates of St. Joseph Seminary and College 20 km
- University of Santo Tomas - Santa Rosa Campus 20 km
- Adventist University of the Philippines 23 km
- De La Salle University - Laguna Campus 24 km
- Far Eastern University Cavite 30 km
- Makiling Mud Spring 0.2 km
- Malaboo 1.5 km
- Bulwagang Sarimanok (Clubhouse) 1.7 km
- Philippine High School for the Arts 1.7 km
- Mount Makiling 1.9 km
- ROMULO'S HALL 2 km
- Vargas Area 2.1 km
- Philippine Boy Scout Jamboree Site 2.5 km
- Anos 3.3 km
- Laguna 22 km
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