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The University of Santo Tomas (UST; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas), officially the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila or colloquially as USTè (pronounced), is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines.
The University of Santo Tomas is one of the oldest existing universities and holds the oldest extant university charter in the Philippines and in Asia. It was founded on April 28, 1611, by the third Archbishop of Manila, Miguel de Benavides, together with Domingo de Nieva and Bernardo de Santa Catalina.
The University of Santo Tomas System is a network of private schools that belong to the Philippine Dominican Province of the Order of Preachers. The system is composed of its six campuses at Manila, Legazpi, General Santos City, Iloilo City, Santa Rosa, and Quezon City.
This is a timeline of the history of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the oldest university in Asia, comprising important events of the history of the university and of the development of Philippine higher education in general.
Founded on April 28, 1611, by Spanish friar Miguel de Benavides, third Archbishop of Manila, it has the oldest extant university charter in Asia and is one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment found on one campus. It is the main campus of the University of Santo Tomas System that is run by the Order of Preachers.
List of University of Santo Tomas alumni - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) National heroes. Religion. Government. Arts, literature, and humanities. Science, technology, and medicine. Businesspeople. Sportspeople. Academe. Noted honorary Thomasians. See also. References. External links. List of University of Santo Tomas alumni.
The University of Santo Tomas Museum is the oldest existing museum in the Philippines. It started as a Gabinete de Fisica, or observation room, of mineral, botanical and biological collections in the 17th century. Under the old Spanish educational law the collections were used as classroom materials, especially in Medicine and Pharmacy . History.
