4 programs receive Asean University Network quality stamp

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Four undergraduate programs of the University have received the coveted Asean University Network (AUN) Quality Assurance (QA) seal.

UST’s biochemistry, chemical engineering, electronics engineering and nursing programs were granted certifications after an institutional assessment last April by the AUN, an organization of Southeast Asian universities.

Last March, UST’s elementary and secondary education, pharmacy and medical technology programs were granted certifications

In August of 2017, the accountancy, biology, chemistry and psychology programs of the University received AUN certifications, placing them at par with the best universities in the region.

UST joined the three top Philippine universities, the University of the Philippines (UP), Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle University in the AUN in January 2016 when it became an associate member.

Membership allows the University to join the network’s exchange programs and other projects, as well as initiatives with partner-organizations like the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the European Union.

AUN was founded by Asean member-countries in November 1995. The network includes 30 universities in the countries under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

UST, along with UP, Ateneo and La Salle, synchronized its academic calendar with Asean universities in 2014, ahead of the 2015 Asean Community integration plan.

The AUN provides guidelines for overall academic standards of member-universities, with criteria such as expected learning outcomes, program specification, program structure and content, teaching and learning strategy, facilities and infrastructure, and quality assurance of teaching and learning.

The applied physics program of the University meanwhile was granted Level 1 accreditation by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities – Commission on Accreditation (Pacucoa).

The accreditation status will be valid until 2021.

Applied physics is the youngest program under the College of Science.

According to the Pacucoa website, education institutions granted with Level 1 accreditation means financial deregulation in terms of setting of tuition and other fees and charges, authority to revise the curriculum without Commission on Higher Education’s (CHEd) approval and priority in the awards of grants, subsidies or funding assistance from CHEd and the Department of Education.

In March of 2017, Pacucoa granted Level 4 re-accreditation to five programs under the College of Science, namely: biology, psychology, applied mathematics, chemistry and microbiology, valid until 2021. K.I.C. Gonzales and Job Anthony R. Manahan

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