De La Salle University

De La Salle University - Manila

College

The Inter-Institutional Consortium (I-IC) . Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) . The International Association of Universities (IAU) . The International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) . Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASEACCU) . ASEAN University Network (AUN) . Philippine Association for Technological Education

De La Salle University occupies a 5.04 hectare lot along busy Taft Avenue in Manila. It is about 4 kilometers away from Manila's City Hall & is easily accessible by public transportation. Along this kilometer radius are situated other colleges and universities, a sports center complex, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex, a row of four-and-five-star hotels, restuarants, shopping and entertainment centers, as well as main feeder roads. The rest of Metropolitan Manila and its environs are easily accessible by private or public transportation.

The University is also served by Manila's Light Rail Transit (LRT) w/c hastens the travel time of commuters. The proximity of the LRT stations (Pablo Ocampo Avenue [formerly known as Vito Cruz Ave.] - Quirino Avenue) to the University facilitates traveling via LRT.

By virtue of its location, De La Salle University has become an urban university sharing in the development growth, success, & the concomitant problems of a growing metropolis.

The University functions like a city with a population of about 13,000 made up of faculty members, administrators, students (college and graduate school), and support staff. Some large and small buildings consisting of the six classroom buildings - the La Salle Hall, Brother Miguel Hall, Saint Joseph Hall, Velasco Hall, Gokongwei Hall, Saint Mutien-Marie Hall - as well as the Gabriel Connon Hall, William Hall, the DLSU Sports Complex, the University Library Building, the Yuchengco Central Administration Building, & the Science and Technology Research Center (STRC) presently occupy this land area.

85% of the students come from the metropolitan area and close to 100% reside within the area. The courses offered at De La Salle University- commerce, computer studies, education, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences-are urban in nature.