students fields of specialization;

Vision
Towards a Total University

9.

Mission
The mission of PUP in the 21st Century is to provide the
highest quality of comprehensive and global education and
community services accessible to all students, Filipinos and
foreigners alike.
It shall offer high quality undergraduate and graduate
programs that are responsive to the changing needs of the
students to enable them to lead productive and meaningful
lives.

Promote intellectual leadership and sustain a humane

and technologically advanced academic community
where people of diverse ideologies work and learn
together to attain academic, research and service
excellence in a continually changing world; and

10. Build a learning community in touch with the main

currents of political, economic and cultural life
throughout the world; a community enriched by the
presence of a significant number of international
students; and a community supported by new
technologies that facilitate active participation in the
creation and use of information and knowledge on a
global scale.

Goals

PUP commits itself to:

1.
2.

Reflective of the great emphasis being given by the country's

leadership aimed at providing appropriate attention to the
Democratize access to educational opportunities;
alleviation of the plight of the poor, the development of the
citizens, and of the national economy to become globally
competitive, the University shall commit its academic
Promote science and technology consciousness and
develop relevant expertise and competence among all resources and manpower to achieve its goals through:
members of the academe, stressing their importance
1. Provision of undergraduate and graduate education
in building a truly independent and sovereign
which meet international standards of quality and
Philippines;
excellence;

3.

Emphasize the unrestrained and unremitting search

for truth and its defense, as well as the advancement
of moral and spiritual values;

2.

Generation and transmission of knowledge in the

broad range of disciplines relevant and responsive to
the dynamically changing domestic and international
environment;

4.

Promote awareness of our beneficial and relevant

cultural heritage;

3.

Provision of more equitable access to higher education

opportunities to deserving and qualified Filipinos; and

4.
5.

Develop in the students and faculty the values of selfdiscipline, love of country and social consciousness
and the need to defend human rights;

Optimization, through efficiency and effectiveness, of

social, institutional, and individual returns and benefits
derived from the utilization of higher education
resources.

6.

Provide its students and faculty with a liberal artsbased education essential to a broader understanding
and appreciation of life and to the total development
of the individual;

7.

8.

Make the students and faculty aware of technological,

social as well as political and economic problems and
encourage them to contribute to the realization of
nationalist industrialization and economic
development of the country;
Use and propagate the national language and other
Philippine languages and develop proficiency in
English and other foreign languages required by the

Philosophy
As a state university, the Polytechnic University of the
Philippines believes that:

Education is an instrument for the development of the

citizenry and for the enhancement of nation building;

Meaningful growth and transformation of the country are best

achieved in an atmosphere of brotherhood, peace, freedom,
justice and a nationalist-oriented education imbued with the
spirit of humanist internationalism.