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Graduate School

Emerging Paradigms
1. Academic programs that are responsive to the needs of industries and students
2. Programs are regularly modified to compensate for changes in job requirements and technology
3. Limited class size to maximize learning & student performance
4. Team-teaching strategies to engage faculty of relevant competencies
5. One-stop service shopping: dedicated staff provides full assistance to students and all their academic concerns
6. Community of students even beyond classrooms through consulting practicum and actual engagements
7. International linkages for research and global competitiveness

Learning Activities and Programs
1. Activity Modules facilitate a stimulating learning environment.
2. Assignments allow students to prepare and to upload their work to the internet.
3. Chat media allow students and faculty to discuss their modules.
4. Forums and structured classes provide intellectual interchange within a vibrant and multidisciplinary graduate community.

Continuing Education for Professionals
Continuing Education for Professionals is designed initially for Non-Education Degree Holders who would like to prepare themselves for a Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). It is a certificate program that caters to working executives, professors and teachers who can pursue their studies and attend school on Saturdays. Working like the CEMBA approach, the 30-unit courses can be delivered under the Modular Approach Program.
Supplemental Programs for Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)
Business Management for Executives
Enhancement Programs for Professionals
OD Diagnostics and Interventions
Community Relations and Development
Religious Studies
Emergency Medical Services
Events Management

Core Competencies:

Major in:

Arts
Educational Management
English
Science Education

Special Education
Physical Education and Sports
Music Education

Major in:

Arts
Early Childhood Development
Educational Management
English
Filipino
Guidance and Counseling
Mathematics

Physical Education and Sports
Science Education
Social Science
Special Education
Technology and Livelihood Education

Philosophy

The UPHSD Graduate School believes that critical thinking in diverse and multicultural experiences are valuable ingredients to academic freedom which can be nurtured by a continuing interchange among students, faculty and peers who employ collaborative roles for further discovery, refinement, and application of knowledge in the business entities and communities they serve.

Vision

The UPHSD Graduate School is an interdisciplinary institute that provides leadership in transforming and developing change agents and managers of resources through peer-exchange and executive mentoring in a diverse and highly competitive knowledge-based environment.

Mission

To enhance the quality of learning across all programs in order to safeguard the value of academic integrity and excellence;
To assist the University in building a world-class educational system through faculty, staff and alumni programs;
To support graduate students from recruitment, registration, retention to graduation;
To advance diversity of graduate education using both traditional approaches and technologically advanced tools;
To encourage research programs that address emerging academic issues and challenges resulting from government legislations and policy advocacies from private sector-led groups; and,
To achieve recognition of the graduate school as the apex of innovation in academic output and excellence.