University of the Philippines Visayas

The University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV or UP Visayas) is a public research university in the Philippines. A constituent university of the University of the Philippines system, it teaches management, accountancy, marketing, economics, chemistry, applied mathematics and physics, marine science education and research, fisheries, and aquaculture. It offers regional studies programs on the preservation and enrichment of the Visayan cultural heritage.

UP Visayas has three campuses--Miagao, Iloilo City, and Tacloban—with Miagao being the main campus with its central administration offices. The University of the Philippines Cebu College was part of UP Visayas but it separated in September 2010, after being declared an autonomous unit. Most of the students of the university are drawn from the Visayas and the Visayan linguistic groups. Many of the leaders of the Visayas graduated from UPV or its predecessor institutions. As of 2007, the Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines awarded four National Centers of Excellence and Development to UPV including Fisheries (UPV-Miagao), Marine Science (UPV-Miagao), and Biology (UPV-Miagao).

UPV was created by merging four UP colleges: UP College of Fisheries founded in 1944; UP Cebu founded in 1918, UP Iloilo founded in 1947, and UP Tacloban founded in 1973. When the Miagao campus was established, many of the academic programs offered in the Iloilo City campus were moved there. To this day, the faculty, staff and students travel between the Iloilo City and Miagao campuses.

During the term of UP President Onofre D. Corpuz in 1975 an interdisciplinary team within the university conceived of an autonomous unit which would become an institution for fisheries and marine science education and research. The idea was fleshed out in a proposal entitled "Education Development Plan for the University of the Philippines in the Visayas", a six-volume report by the interdisciplinary team. The new university would evolve from the UP College of Iloilo and the College of Fisheries in Diliman, which would transfer to its new site in the Visayas. Funding was to come partly from a government loan, to be negotiated with the World Bank for the development of fisheries education.

On September 21, 1977, President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued Presidential Decree 1200, known as the Philippine Five-Year Development Plan (1978–1982), which provides, among others, that Region VI would be the site of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) with emphasis on fisheries and marine sciences. A second UPV Project Development Team was then organized in December 1977 to review and update the plans. The development plan was approved by the UP Board of Regents on May 28, 1978. The fisheries educational loan was then re-negotiated with the World Bank inasmuch as its appraisal team had earlier favorably endorsed the development plan.

"If you love nature, you will find beauty anywhere." Happy visiting the campus, it's my first time and I love it.😍

It such a nice university a lot of places and fields that you can enjoy and have a time to your self. Best place ever!!

Great place. Great people. Great food.

You cant go wrong in this University, friendly people, safe campus location and excellent to grade quality education they offer 👌

Few of my classmates from HS graduated here, they said the school if very accomodating and very generous they understand students very well.

Its nice that they have a football field already. Clean & cool campus. Affordable dorms & a chance to work as a student assistant to help students needing extra allowance.
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It IS University of the Philippines,a very popular scholl in the philippines generally considered as the best especiallg for the sciences.

Being one of the leading universities in the Philippines, UP Visayas has really uphold their name and reputation.

Great place
Affordable dorms & a chance to work as a student

Nice and cool place

Every time we visit Miagao town we never missed to visit UP the Visayas. We just loved the atmosphere.

It's seem to lot of people studying university

Good environment and practices diversity and inclusivity 💯💗

Nice place and great school

It IS University of the Philippines, generally considered as the best in the Philippines, especiallg for the sciences.

Beautiful place highly recommended 😊

Good

A very nice school

One of the universities that excels in academic and literature