The UPLB Graduate School (also known as GS) is a professional graduate school and is one of the eleven degree-granting units of the

University of the Philippines Los Baños The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB; fil, Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Los Baños), also referred to as UP Los Baños or colloquially as Elbi (), is a public research university primarily located in the towns of Los Baños and Bay ...

. Located in

Los Baños, Laguna Los Baños, officially the Municipality of Los Baños ( tgl, Bayan ng Los Baños), colloquialy 'elbi' or simply LB, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 115,353 ...

, the school also integrates and administers graduate programs of the university in agriculture, forestry, the basic sciences (e.g. biology and chemistry),

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and statistics, development economics and management, agrarian studies and human ecology. It is responsible for the implementation of the policies, rules, and regulations of the graduate faculty in the university.

History

The Graduate school started in 1913 when the UP College of Agriculture (now UP College of Agriculture and Food Science) offered graduate programs of Master of Science in Agricultural Chemistry. The University Graduate School was established by the UP Board of Regents on October 26, 1950 and is mandated to administer the graduate programs in the Los Baños unit through a sub-committee. The UPLB Graduate school was formally established on December 21, 1972 upon the establishment of the autonomous units of the University under the UP System.

References

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