UP Professional Schools construction starts in BGC

Construction of the UP Professional Schools in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) has already started on a 4,300-square-meter lot, according to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, saying it donated the land through a deed of conveyance last year. 

 

UP Professional Schools would  be a prestigious addition to BGC’s growing academic community, BCDA  president  and chief executive Arnel Paciano Casanova said in an interview with reporters.

 

“UP in  BGC  will  not  only  benefit  the future generation but is expected to complement the culture of excellence within the central business district,” Casanova said.

 

Government officials including Vice President Jejomar Binay were at the recently held groundbreaking rites that started the construction, the BCDA noted in a statement.

 

UP Professional Schools is being built beside the International School  Manila at Bonifacio Global City’s Institutional Area and near Market!  Market! Mall. The school will offer post-graduate courses in Law, Business Administration, Statistics, Engineering and Architecture, as well as Open University courses and other continuing education courses and seminars.

 

“UP, in particular, is the premier state university that has produced graduates who become the nation’s leaders, and the movers and shakers of society,” according to the BCDA president.

 

The UP satellite campus adds to the prestige of Bonifacio Global City as host to higher learning apart from being a  premier  business and financial  district, said BCDA chair Felicito Payumo. 

 

UP president Alfredo Pascual noted the new campus brings the state university to a choice location and a center of innovation and growth in Metro Manila.

 

Other schools in Bonifacio Global City are British School Manila, Manila  Japanese School, Manila Gospel-New Life Christian Academy, and the Every Nation Leadership Institute. — VS, GMA News