| | De La Salle University
occupies a 5.04 hectare lot along busy Taft Avenue in Manila. It is
about four kilometers away from Manila's City Hall and 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) which 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, and 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, and the Science and Technology Research Center (STRC)
presently occupy this land area. |
| | The atmosphere inside
the campus, like that existing outside the University walls, is
primarily urban in character. Eighty-five percent of the students come
from the metropolitan area and close to 100 percent reside within the
area. Moreover, the majority of students, coming as they do from the
middle and higher socio-economic levels, expect to work in Metropolitan
Manila or in similar urban areas. Because of this, the courses offered
at De La Salle University -- commerce, computer studies, education,
engineering, liberal arts, and sciences -- are urban in orientation. |
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