De La Salle Lipa - Campus

Campus

The De La Salle Lipa campus sits on a 10-hectare lot next to the J.P. Laurel National highway, (Japan-Philippine Friendship highway), just on the outskirts of Lipa City. It is 5 minutes away by car from the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR), which links the city to the Southern Luzon Express Way (SLEX).

Batangas City, the provincial capital, is 40 minutes away via STAR tollway.

Entering the main access gate at the front of campus, visitors drive into well-paved concrete roads with parking facilities for more than 200 vehicles. The SENTRUM is the first major structure seen, a multi-purpose building which has been the venue of pop concerts, professional basketball games, corporate assemblies and religious gatherings.

In front of the SENTRUM is a well-kept garden that has a stone sculpture of the founder, St. John Baptist de la Salle.

Just a stone’s throw away are the Chez Rafael (formerly Chez Avenir named in honor of the school's former President Br. Rafael S. Donato FSC), a laboratory hotel for BS Hotel & Restaurant Management majors, and the Sen. Jose Diokno Building, which holds the College’s Learning Resource Center and the offices of top administration.

There are two unofficial divisions to the campus: the Integrated School side and the college side, although students are not restricted from crossing to either side. In the Integrated School side, the most recognizable structure is the St. La Salle Building, which is made up of several clusters just in front of the highway.

The main cluster that offers the main access gate for Integrated School students is called the Hall of Lasallian Saints. The hall offers access to the building’s classrooms as well as to the historic Br. Henry Virgil Memorial Gymnasium.

The other main structures for Integrated School students are the St. Benilde, St. Mutien Marie Building and Br. Gregory Refuerzo Buildings. The Learning Resource Center is located inside the Br. Vernon Mabile Building.

College students hold classes in the western half of the campus. The main structures in this side are the Claro M. Recto, Jose Rizal which is composed of the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo clusters and Apolinario Mabini Buildings.

Also in the College side of the campus is the Gregorio Zara Building, informally known as the I.T. Domain Building, which holds the school’s Network Operations Center as well as three computer laboratories.

Beside the Zara Building is a gate and an access road that leads to the De La Salle Brothers’ Novitiate.