The University of the Philippines Visayas, known also as UPV and UP Visayas, is a public research university in the Philippines, and one of the units of the University of the Philippines System. It is the most prominent and one of the leading educational institutions in the Southern Philippines, especially when it comes to management, accountancy, marketing, economics, chemistry, applied mathematics and physics, marine science education and research, fisheries, and aquaculture. It also offers regional studies programs on the preservation and enrichment of the Visayan cultural heritage as well as a full complement of other subjects and majors.
U.P. Visayas has three campuses==Miagao, Iloilo City, and Tacloban--with Miagao being the main campus with its central administration offices. The University of the Philippines Cebu College was part of UP Visayas but it separated in September 2010,.
Most of UPV's students are drawn from the Visayas and the Visayan linguistic groups, attracting many of the best students of this region. Many of the leaders of the Visayas have graduated from U.P.V. or its predecessor institutions.
As of 2007, the Philippines' Commission on Higher Education awarded four National Centers of Excellence/Development to UPV: Fisheries (UPV-Miagao), Marine Science (UPV-Miagao), and Biology (UPV-Miagao).
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