University of Santo Tomas Graduate School


The University of Santo Tomas Graduate School is the graduate school of the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest and largest Catholic university in Manila, Philippines.
As early as the seventeenth century, the University of Santo Tomas had already been granting master's and doctoral degrees. The different faculties and colleges supervised their respective undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs

General information

Academic programs have grown from a handful of academic offerings to around ninety graduate degree programs, spanning a cross-section of disciplines. Regular classes, colloquia and oral defenses are held at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex. Laboratories and conference halls are maintained at the left wing of the Benavides Building. The UST Graduate School publishes The Antoninus Journal, a refereed multidisciplinary scholarly journal.

Academic recognition

The UST Graduate School is recognized by the Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines as a Center of Excellence in several fields of the arts and humanities, allied health sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Its programs in business, public management, and education were also recognized by the Commission on Higher Education's Fund for Assistance to Private Education in its periodic and systemic Evaluation of Graduate Education Programs.
Six of its business-related degrees are also included in the 2011 list of top international master's programs by the Paris-based Eduniversal International Scientific Committee. The following programs are ranked in the Far East Asian region, according to their respective categories: MA in Communication ; MA in Economics ; MS in Human Relations Management ; Master of Public Administration ; MS in Management Engineering ; and MBA in Entrepreneurship program.

Notable alumni

The Graduate School has produced the following alumni:

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