UP, DLSU campuses in BGC soon

Two of the country’s top universities are setting up campuses in Bonifacio Global City, according to the Taguig city government.

In a statement on Tuesday, City Hall said BGC would soon host facilities of the University of the Philippines (UP) and De La Salle University (DLSU), mainly for their graduate courses, along University Parkway Drive. UP, which had its groundbreaking ceremony for its BGC site in 2012, had begun construction of an extension school on a 4,300-square-meter lot in the northeast side of the commercial district, it said.

In a gathering with alumni in May, UP President Alfredo Pascual said the BGC property for the new campus was donated by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority with the help of Senate President Franklin Drilon, a UP alumnus, while the nine-story building to be constructed was courtesy of the SM Group of Companies. The building would primarily be for postgraduate students of the UP colleges of law, business and engineering, as well as for the UP School of Statistics, City Hall said.

Meanwhile, DLSU will be constructing a six-story building for its College of Law on a 1,395-sqm property. Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano welcomed the developments, noting how they would bring the top universities “within arm’s reach of Taguigenos” while generating local  employment. The city government made the announcements despite the continuing dispute in the Court of Appeals between Taguig and neighboring Makati City over which local government has control of BGC.–Kristine Felisse Mangunay