THE Commission on Higher Education has granted University Status to the Benedictine-founded San Beda College-Manila, an official of the school’s Alumni Association confirmed Wednesday.
CHED granted the status during its 501st Joint Management Committee and Commission en banc meeting Tuesday, after the school complied with the requirements, Wilma Abellanosa of the Alumni Association said.
San Beda, a private Roman Catholic university founded in 1901 and run by Benedictine monks in the Philippines, also has a campus in Taytay, Rizal, and a campus in Alabang, Muntinlupa, known as the San Beda University Alabang which is autonomous from the two other campuses.
According to CHED officer-in-charge J. Prospero de Vera III, San Beda College-Manila, as a university “is expected to contribute to nation-building by providing highly specialized educational experiences to train experts in the various technical and disciplinal areas.”
At the same time, San Beda is expected to emphasize “the development of new knowledge and skills through research and development.”
SBC-Manila houses four colleges: Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Medicine, and Law. The three graduate schools of San Beda—Business, Law, and Liturgy—are in the Mendiola campus.
According to CHED, San Beda University “is also expected to produce experts, knowledge, and technological innovations that can be resources for long-term development processes in the globalized context.”