University of Santo Tomas

The University of Santo Tomas, officially the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, is a private Catholic pontifical research university on España Boulevard in the Sampaloc district of Manila, founded on 28 April 1611 by the Spanish Dominican friar Miguel de Benavides, the third Archbishop of Manila.圣托马斯大学官方全名为教宗立皇家圣托马斯大学，是一所位于马尼拉西班牙大道旁的私立天主教宗座研究型大学，1611 年 4 月 28 日由西班牙道明会士、第三任马尼拉大主教米格尔·德·贝纳维德斯创办。

It holds the oldest extant university charter in Asia and is among the world's largest Catholic universities by enrollment on a single campus, its 21.5-hectare main campus is the largest university site in the City of Manila, and 45,731 students enrolled in the first term of the academic year 2026-2027.它持有亚洲现存最古老的大学特许状，是单校园注册规模最大的天主教大学之一，其 21.5 公顷的主校园为马尼拉市面积最大的大学校园，2026-2027 学年第一学期注册学生 45,731 人。

History

• Miguel de Benavides reached the Philippines with the first Dominican mission in 1587, became bishop of Nueva Segovia and third Archbishop of Manila in 1602, and on his death on 26 July 1605 bequeathed his library and personal property worth 1,500 pesos as the seed fund of the university.米格尔·德·贝纳维德斯 1587 年随首批道明会传教团来到菲律宾，历任新塞戈维亚主教和 1602 年升座的第三任马尼拉大主教，1605 年 7 月 26 日辞世时将藏书与值 1500 比索的私人财产遗作建校基金。

• Two days before his death Benavides made his testament before the Dominican priests Domingo de Nieva and Bernardo de Santa Catalina, who executed his will, and in June 1606 the bishop Diego de Soria wrote to King Philip III of Spain asking that the planned colegio grant degrees like those of the Colegio de Santo Tomás in Avila.贝纳维德斯去世前两天在道明会士多明戈·德·涅瓦和贝尔纳多·德·圣卡塔利娜面前立下遗嘱，二人即其遗命执行人，1606 年 6 月主教迭戈·德·索里亚致信西班牙国王腓力三世，请求拟办的书院可授予阿维拉圣托马斯书院同等学位。

• Permission to open the college was requested from Philip III in 1609 but the reply only reached Manila two years later, and the university was founded on 28 April 1611, the act of foundation signed by the friars Baltasar Fort, Bernardo Navarro and Francisco Minayo.1609 年向腓力三世申请办学许可，回谕两年后才抵马尼拉，大学于 1611 年 4 月 28 日创建，建院文书由会士巴尔塔萨尔·福特、贝尔纳多·纳瓦罗和弗朗西斯科·米纳约签署。

• Bernardo de Santa Catalina secured a building beside the Dominican church and convent inside the walled city of Intramuros, and the founders modeled the college on the University of Salamanca and the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.贝尔纳多·德·圣卡塔利娜在王城内因特拉穆罗斯的圣堂与修道院旁觅得院址，创办者以萨拉曼卡大学和墨西哥皇家宗座大学为办学范本。

• The college was first named Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario and in 1619 was renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas in honour of the Dominican theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas.书院初名玫瑰圣母书院，1619 年改称圣托马斯书院，以纪念道明会神学家托马斯·阿奎那。

• On 20 November 1645 Pope Innocent X issued the bull In Supereminenti, elevating the Colegio de Santo Tomás to a university placed under papal authority.1645 年 11 月 20 日教宗英诺森十世颁布谕令 In Supereminenti，将圣托马斯书院升格为直属教宗的大学。

• Following the royal decree of King Philip V of 1733 and the bull Dudum emanarunt of Pope Clement XII of 1734, the Faculty of Canon Law and the Faculty of Civil Law were established.腓力五世 1733 年御令与教宗克莱孟十二世 1734 年谕令（Dudum emanarunt）先后颁行，教会法学院与民法法学院随之设立。

• King Charles III of Spain conferred the title Royal on the university in 1785 in recognition of its loyalty in defending Manila against British troops, reviving a patronage tradition begun in 1680 when Charles II was named the first royal patron.西班牙国王卡洛斯三世于 1785 年因该校保卫马尼拉抗击英军之忠忱而赐"皇家"称号，重续 1680 年卡洛斯二世被尊为首任皇家守护人之传统。

• The Royal Decree of 20 May 1865 from Queen Isabella II empowered the university to supervise all secondary schools, and as the only institution of higher learning then in the islands it effectively acted as the colonial department of education.伊莎贝拉二世 1865 年 5 月 20 日御令授权大学监管全菲中等学校，当时群岛仅此一所高等学府，它实际上行使殖民地教育署职能。

• Five years later the minister for the overseas colonies Segismundo Moret decreed the conversion of the corporation into the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Filipinas, a renaming that was subsequently reversed.五年后殖民事务大臣塞希斯蒙多·莫雷特颁令将学校改称菲律宾皇家宗座大学，此名后又恢复原称。

• In 1871 the Superior Gobierno de Filipinas established the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy and licensed it to grant the medical licentiate, and from 1877 to 1901 a total of 329 students earned that degree.1871 年菲律宾总督府设立医药学院并准授医学执照学位，1877 至 1901 年间共 329 名学生获此学位。

• José Rizal studied medicine at the university from 1878 to 1882 and was granted the rare privilege of pursuing the preparatory medical course and the first year of medicine simultaneously.何塞·黎刹 1878 至 1882 年在这里习医，获准医学预科与医学一年级同时攻读之殊荣。

• In 1902, under the new American administration, the university began granting the Doctor of Medicine degree, and Pope Leo XIII's apostolic constitution Quae Mari Sinico formally declared UST a pontifical university.1902 年美国施政下大学始授医学博士学位，教宗良十三世的宗座宪令 Quae Mari Sinico 正式宣告圣托马斯大学为宗座大学。

• The corporation was registered on 13 January 1908 as a non-stock, non-profit educational institution under Act 1459 with the corporate name Real y Pontificia Universidad de Santo Tomás de Manila.1908 年 1 月 13 日学校依第 1459 号法案注册为无股份非营利教育机构，法人名为马尼拉皇家宗座圣托马斯大学。

• As the student population grew the Dominicans received a 21.5-hectare plot at the Sulucan Hills in Sampaloc, the university opened to female enrollees in 1924 and completed the move to the new campus in 1927, leaving only medicine and civil law in Intramuros.因学生激增，道明会获萨姆帕洛克苏卢坎丘陵 21.5 公顷地块，大学 1924 年开始招收女生，1927 年迁建新校园，仅医药与民法两学院仍留王城。

• Academic life was interrupted only twice since 1611, from 1898 to 1899 during the Philippine Revolution against Spain and from 1942 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation.自建校以来其学术生活仅两度中断，即 1898 至 1899 年菲律宾反西革命期间和 1942 至 1945 年日占时期。

• During World War II the Imperial Japanese forces turned UST into an internment camp holding enemy aliens for 37 months from January 1942 until 11 February 1945, and the Kenpeitai garrisoned and burned the original Intramuros campus in 1944.二战中日军将圣托马斯大学充作拘禁敌国侨民之营，自 1942 年 1 月至 1945 年 2 月 11 日达 37 个月，其宪兵队驻守并焚毁王城老校园。

• More than 3,700 internees were liberated, 2,870 of them Americans, when forces under General Douglas MacArthur freed the camp, while over 600 internees had died of killing, sickness or starvation.麦克阿瑟将军部队解放拘留营时逾 3700 名被拘者获释，其中美国人 2870 名，另有 600 余名被拘者死于迫害、疾病或饥饿。

• Pope Pius XII bestowed the appellate name The Catholic University of the Philippines in 1947, and in 1974 King Juan Carlos I of Spain received a doctor of laws honoris causa and the title Royal Patron, while Queen Sofía returned in 2012.庇护十二世 1947 年赠以菲律宾天主教大学之名，1974 年西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯一世获法学名誉博士并受封皇家守护人，王后索菲亚于 2012 年重访。

• Since 1970 four popes have visited the pontifical university, Paul VI in 1970, John Paul II in 1981 and 1995 and Francis in 2015, and Benedict XVI sent a special envoy and a video message for the quadricentennial year in 2011.1970 年以来四位教宗亲临此宗座大学，保禄六世 1970 年、若望保禄二世 1981 与 1995 年、方济各 2015 年来访，本笃十六世则在 2011 年四百周年特遣使节并发表视频讲话。

• Leonardo Legaspi served as the first Filipino rector from 1971 to 1977, and after martial law was declared in 1972 the student council of the Faculty of Arts and Letters became the first legitimate student government in the country, while The Varsitarian kept publishing despite the closure of several national newspapers.莱昂纳多·莱加斯皮 1971 至 1977 年出任首任菲律宾籍校长，1972 年戒严令后文艺学院学生会成为全国戒严时期首个合法学生自治组织，校报 The Varsitarian 在多份大报停刊之际仍继续出版。

• On 1 December 2010 the Philippine House of Representatives passed Resolution No. 51 congratulating the university on its quadricentennial anniversary in 2011 and recording its oldest extant charter in the Philippines and Asia, a primacy disputed by the University of San Carlos.2010 年 12 月 1 日菲律宾众议院通过第 51 号决议，祝贺大学 2011 年四百周年校庆并确认其特许状为菲律宾与亚洲现存最旧，圣卡洛斯大学对此首位地位提出异议。

Academics

• UST operates under the Code of Canon Law, the apostolic constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae with the Philippine bishops' supplementary ordinances, and the laws of the Republic, and its executive authorities are the chancellor, vice-chancellor, rector and vice-rector.圣托马斯大学依天主教法典、宗座宪令（Ex corde Ecclesiae）及菲律宾主教团的补充规程和国家法律运行，最高行政长官为名誉校长、副名誉校长、校长与副校长。

• The ex-officio chancellor is the Master of the Order of Preachers, currently the Filipino-Dominican Gerard Timoner III, who appoints the rector upon approval of the Holy See, while the ex-officio vice-chancellor is the Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.总理由道明会总会长当然兼任，现任为菲籍道明会士杰拉德·蒂莫内三世，经圣座批准任命校长，副总理则由菲律宾道明省省长当然兼任。

• The university runs 22 degree-granting colleges made up of 19 civil colleges and three ecclesiastical colleges, plus three basic-education schools, and it houses the first and oldest engineering, law, medical and pharmacy schools in the Philippines.大学辖 22 所学位授予学院，含 19 所世俗学院与 3 所教会学院，另有三所基础教育学府，并拥有菲律宾最早且历史最久的工学院、法学院、医学院与药学院。

• Programs span more than 180 undergraduate and graduate specializations, comprising over 63 undergraduate programs, three professional programs, over 50 master's programs and over 20 doctorates, and every bachelor's curriculum includes theology courses.学位课程逾 180 个本研专业，含本科 63 个以上、专业学位 3 个、硕士 50 个以上与博士 20 余个，所有本科课程皆含神学课。

• The Faculties of Sacred Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law are also governed by the apostolic constitution Veritatis gaudium issued by Pope Francis on 8 December 2017, and the Central Seminary and UST Hospital have separate statutes while remaining under the university.神学院、哲学院与教会法学院另受方济各 2017 年 12 月 8 日所颁宗座宪令（Veritatis gaudium）管辖，中央神修院与大学医院各有章程而仍隶属大学。

• The Doctor of Medicine program is a four-year post-graduate degree with three years of instruction in the medical school and one year of clinical clerkship at the UST Hospital, which offers 21 residency training programs and trains on a blended problem-based and outcome-based model.医学博士为四年制研究生学位，医学院授课三年、大学医院临床实习一年，医院设 21 个住院医师培训项目，采问题导向与成果导向混合教学模式。

• Medical applicants need a general weighted average of at least 2.00 or 86 percent and an NMAT score at the 85th percentile, and about 480 candidates are admitted from 1,700 to 1,900 applicants each year, while the shortlisted LEAPMed entrants are cut from the top 200 USTET scorers to the final 90.医学申请者须总加权均分至少 2.00 或 86 分且 NMAT 达第 85 百分位，每年 1700 至 1900 名应申请者仅取约 480 名，医学先行班则从 USTET 前 200 名入围者中终选 90 名。

• The Faculty of Civil Law offers a four-year Juris Doctor whose curriculum mirrors the Legal Education Board model, with Master of Laws and Doctor of Civil Law degrees at the Graduate School of Law and a separate entrance examination.民法法学院设四年制法律博士课程，依法律教育委员会范本，研究生院另设法学硕士与民法博士，并单独组织入学考试。

• All six engineering programs, civil, chemical, electrical, electronics, industrial and mechanical, were accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET in 2020 and again in 2026, and the Faculty of Engineering enrolled 4,406 freshmen in 2026, second only to the 4,664 of the Faculty of Arts and Letters.土木、化工、电机、电子、工业与机械六个工程专业 2020 年与 2026 年均获 ABET 工程认证委员会认可，2026 年工学院新生 4406 人，仅次于文艺学院 4664 人。

• In 2019 UST employed 2,164 teaching members of faculty, the most among Philippine private institutions, including 1,160 master's degree holders and 333 doctorate holders.2019 年大学任教员 2164 人，居全国私立高校之首，其中硕士学历 1160 人、博士学历 333 人。

• The university administers the UST Entrance Test whose results are released on the foundation day of 28 April and which is held at 35 provincial and eight international centres in Hong Kong, Doha, Dubai, Manama, Muscat, Al-Khobar, Jeddah and Riyadh, while a composite USTAR rating replaced it in 2020 and 2021.大学主办圣托马斯大学入学考试，放榜日定为 4 月 28 日校庆日，考场设本土 35 个及香港、多哈、迪拜、麦纳麦、马斯喀特、胡拜尔、吉达、利雅得八个海外点，2020 与 2021 年曾以综合评定 USTAR 代考。

• In 2020 the USTAR drew 48,411 applications and 7,772 college freshmen were admitted for the school year 2021-2022, and the USTET resumed in 2022 for the school year 2023-2024.2020 年 USTAR 收到申请 48,411 份，2021-2022 学年录取本科新生 7772 人，入学考试于 2022 年恢复用于 2023-2024 学年。

• UST is one of five Philippine universities recognised in 2024 by the Second Congressional Commission on Education as a first-tier comprehensive institution, belongs to the Philippine Higher Education Research Network, and spent 91 million pesos on research in 2017 and 116 million pesos in 2018.2024 年第二届国会教育委员会评定全国五所一流综合大学，圣托马斯大学居其一，该校亦属高教研究网络成员，科研经费 2017 年 9100 万比索、2018 年 1.16 亿比索。

• Research institutes include the Research Center for Natural and Applied Sciences, the Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities, the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education, the Research Center for Health Sciences and the Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics, and the Research Center for Engineering and Technological Sciences was added in 2026.科研机构有自然科学与应用科学研究中心、文化艺术与人文研究中心、社会科学与教育研究中心、健康科学研究中心、热带文物与环境保护中心等，2026 年新设工程与技术科学研究中心。

• The UST Herbarium, established in the 1870s to satisfy a Spanish colonial requirement, holds more than 11,000 identified plant specimens, and the university has named new species such as Vanda ustii, Mycetia dagohoyana and Freycinetia nonatoi, while its microbial strain collection held 224 strains in 2019.校立植物标本馆建于 1870 年代以满足西属时期之要求，藏有已鉴定植物标本 1.1 万份以上，该校先后命名“Vanda ustii、Mycetia dagohoyana、Freycinetia nonatoi”等新种，2019 年菌种保藏 224 株。

• The UST Miguel de Benavides Library held over 360,000 books in 2017-2018 and logged more than 10.9 million remote accesses to electronic resources, receiving over 1,100,000 visitors in 2018-2019 from sixteen sections and seven branch libraries.贝纳维德斯图书馆 2017-2018 年度藏书逾 36 万册，电子资源远程访问逾 1090 万次，2018-2019 年度到馆读者超过 110 万人次，下设 16 个部门与 7 个分馆。

• The Antonio Vivencio del Rosario UST Heritage Library keeps 30,000 volumes printed between 1492 and 1900, among them Copernicus's De revolutionibus of 1543 and the Doctrina Christiana of 1593, the first book written and published in the Philippines, and its Lumina Pandit conservation programme with UnionBank has scanned 1.5 million pages.安东尼奥·维森西奥·德尔罗萨里奥遗产图书馆藏 1492 至 1900 年出版图书 3 万卷，含 1543 年哥白尼《天体运行论》与 1593 年菲律宾首部刊印书《基督教教义》，与联合银行合作的 Lumina Pandit 项目已扫描 150 万页。

• The Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás holds the world's largest surviving collection of ancient baybayin scripts, two 17th-century baybayin deeds of sale declared National Cultural Treasures in 2014, and the Spanish-Hokkien Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum of 1626-1642, the oldest and largest extant Spanish-Chinese dictionary, found by Spanish and Taiwanese scholars in 2017.大学档案馆藏有世界上最多的古“baybayin”文字原件，17 世纪两份“baybayin”卖地契 2014 年被列为国家文化珍宝，1626-1642 年的西文-闽南文大词典为现存最古最大的西汉词典，2017 年由西班牙与台湾学者在馆中发现。

Campus

• The main campus occupies an almost perfect square of 21.5 hectares on España Boulevard in Sampaloc within Manila's University Belt, where the Dominicans relocated from Intramuros in 1927, and 12 of its 24 major buildings were erected between 2002 and 2023.主校园位于西班牙大道旁，占地 21.5 公顷，近乎正方，处马尼拉大学城带内，道明会 1927 年自王城迁来，24 栋主要建筑中 12 栋建于 2002 至 2023 年。

• The Main Building, designed by the Dominican priest and engineer Roque Ruaño and built from 1924 to 1927, was the first structure on the new campus and once served as the Kilometer Zero of Manila, housing civil law, pharmacy, the College of Science, the museum and the administrative offices.主楼由道明会士工程师罗克·鲁阿尼奥设计，1924 至 1927 年建成，为新校园第一栋建筑，曾被定为马尼拉零公里起点，现设民法学院、药学院、理学院、博物馆与行政机构。

• The Arch of the Centuries, erected around 1680 as the entrance to the Intramuros campus and moved to its present site in 1954, heads a central axis with the Plaza Benavides, the Main Building, the Quadricentennial Square, the Benavides Library and the Tan Yan Kee Student Center, with the Henry Sy Sr. Hall upcoming.世纪拱门约建于 1680 年，原为王城校区大门，1954 年迁至现址，与贝纳维德斯广场、主楼、四百周年广场、贝纳维德斯图书馆、Tan Yan Kee 学生中心同列主轴，Henry Sy Sr. Hall 将继起。

• Campus buildings show styles from Renaissance Revival to Art Deco, Bauhaus and the International Style, early designs by university priests and professors, with the Central Seminary of 1933 by Fernando Ocampo in Art Deco, the Bauhaus-inspired San Martin de Porres Building of 1952 housing medicine, nursing and rehabilitation sciences, and the International Style St. Raymund de Peñafort Building of 1955.校内建筑兼有文艺复兴复兴式、装饰艺术、包豪斯与国际式风格，早期设计多出自身为教职员的会士与教授之手，1933 年中央神修院为装饰艺术式，出自费尔南多·奥坎波之手，1952 年圣马丁德波雷斯楼带包豪斯风格容纳医药与护理等学院，1955 年圣雷蒙·德佩尼亚福尔特楼则为国际式。

• Across España Boulevard the 23-storey Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati Building, linked by the UST Link Bridge, became the tallest educational building in the Philippines when completed in 2019 and houses the senior high school, the College of Information and Computing Sciences, which was separated from the Faculty of Engineering as an institute in 2014 and elevated to a college in 2021, and the DOST-TOMASInno Center.西班牙大道对面的圣皮尔乔尔焦弗拉萨蒂楼高 23 层，经空桥与主园相连，2019 年落成时为菲律宾最高的教学建筑，设高中部、信息与计算科学学院（2014 年自工学院析出为所、2021 年升为院）及科技创孵中心。

• The Quadricentennial Pavilion contains a 5,792-seat arena, a fitness centre, a two-lane indoor track and training halls for dance, badminton, fencing, judo and table tennis, and hosted the CNN Philippines vice-presidential debates in 2016, the senatorial debates in 2019 and the presidential and vice-presidential debates in 2022.四百周年体育馆设 5792 座赛场、健身中心、两条跑道及舞蹈、羽毛球、击剑、柔道、乒乓训练厅，2016 年菲律宾 CNN 副总统辩论、2019 年参议员辩论与 2022 年正副总统辩论均在此举行。

• The campus was declared a National Historical Landmark by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2011, and the National Museum named the Arch of the Centuries, the Main Building, the Central Seminary and the university's open spaces as National Cultural Treasures.2011 年国家历史委员会宣布该校园为国家历史地标，国家博物馆则将世纪拱门、主楼、中央神修院与校园开放空间列为国家文化珍宝。

• A stormwater drainage system completed in 2021 covers seven street zones and stores 11.25 million litres of water to mitigate the campus's seasonal flooding, and in 2022 new UST block letters and a Bengal tiger statue were unveiled at the Plaza Mayor.2021 年竣工的雨水排放系统工程覆盖七个街区，可蓄 1125 万升水以缓解校园季节性内涝，2022 年市长广场揭幕新版 UST 立体字与孟加拉虎铜像。

• The UST System integrates the Angelicum College in Quezon City, founded as the Angelicum School in 1972 by Rogelio Alarcon and renamed in 1996, and UST-Legazpi, the former Aquinas University of Legazpi and the largest Catholic university in the Bicol Region, into the system in 2017.UST 体系于 2017 年整合克松城安赫利库姆学院（1972 年罗赫利奥·阿拉尔孔创办为安赫利库姆学校，1996 年更名）与前身为阿奎那大学的黎牙实比分校，后者为比科尔地区最大的天主教大学。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 951-1000 band, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 in the 1601-1800 band, and it was not listed in the US News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 or on the ARWU 2026 main list.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列于 951-1000 区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列于 1601-1800 区间，2026-2027 年 U.S. News 世界大学排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名均未收录该校。

• QS awarded the institution four stars in 2015 and five stars in 2021, with five stars for teaching, employability, internationalisation and facilities, a five-star rating also given to the Doctor of Medicine program, and UST was ranked 251-300 in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2023.QS 于 2015 年授予该校四星评价，2021 年升为五星，教学、就业、国际化与设施均获五星，医学博士课程亦得五星，2023 年 QS 毕业生就业力排名列于 251-300。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 medicine ranked 701-850, while in the Times Higher Education subject rankings 2026 education studies placed 501-600, medical and health 601-800, life sciences 801-1000 and social sciences 1001 plus.2026 年 QS 学科排名医学列 701-850，2026 年泰晤士学科排名教育学列 501-600、医学与健康列 601-800、生命科学列 801-1000、社会科学列 1001 以后。

• UST ranked first among Philippine universities in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings in 2020 and third in 2026, and in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings it placed fourth in the country at 834 worldwide.在泰晤士高等教育影响排名中，该校 2020 年居菲律宾大学之首、2026 年列第三，QS 世界大学可持续排名中列全球第 834 位、全国第四。

• OpenAlex records 7,944 research works and 148,806 citations for the university, and the 2026 Alper-Doger Scientific Index placed UST sixth in the Philippines with 455 Thomasian scientists listed.OpenAlex 收录该校科研著作 7944 篇、被引 148,806 次，2026 年 Alper-Doger 科学家指数列该校全国第六，入选托马森学者 455 人。

• CHED granted UST autonomous status in 2002, one of only three private universities with five-year autonomy in 2016, and in 2026 recognised it as the leading Philippine institution in world rankings for securing the most placements in QS, THE and the World University Rankings for Innovation.高教委 2002 年授予自治地位，2016 年为享五年自治的三所私立大学之一，2026 年因其在国际排名上榜数量最多而认定该校为全国之首。

• Twenty-six programs are designated Centers of Excellence or Centers of Development by CHED, 13 each, the most of any private institution, UST is one of only three universities with a Center of Excellence in the Doctor of Medicine, and PACUCOA had accredited 59 programs by July 2024, the highest in the country, including 27 at Level IV.高教委认定的卓越中心与发展中心专业各 13 个共 26 个，为私立之冠，该校为全国仅有的三个医学博士卓越中心之一，至 2024 年 7 月已获 PACUCOA 认证专业 59 个，全国最多，其中四级认证 27 个。

• UST joined the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance group as an associate member in 2016 and in 2020 became its first associate member to receive institutional certification, with 30 programs certified, and seven Graduate School master's programs appeared in the Eduniversal 2026 Business Schools Ranking.2016 年该校成为东盟大学网络质量保障组织准会员，2020 年成为首个获机构认证的准会员并有 30 个专业获证，研究生院七个硕士项目入选 2026 年 Eduniversal 商学院排名。

Student life

• Ceremonies follow the Hispano-Filipino Dominican calendar, the academic year opening with a Misa de Apertura and the Discurso de Apertura first held in 1866, freshmen processing under the Arch of the Centuries at the Thomasian Welcome Walk, and the month-long UST Paskuhan staging nativity reenactments, banquets and concerts.校园典礼沿西班牙-菲律宾道明传统，学年以开幕弥撒与始自 1866 年的开幕演讲礼揭幕，新生在托马斯迎新步行中穿过世纪拱门，为期一个月的圣诞季活动排演降生场景并设宴献乐。

• At the close of each year the Baccalaureate Mass, the Ceremony of the Light and graduation rites end with graduates turning to face the cross atop the Main Building and singing the UST Hymn before a recessional through the Arch of the Centuries.学年末毕业弥撒、点亮礼与毕业典礼以毕业生转身面向主楼顶十字架同唱校歌、再由世纪拱门列队而出作结。

• As in many Catholic institutions, campus activity and traffic stop at 12:00 and 18:00 for the Angelus and at 15:00 for the Divine Mercy prayer, and students and alumni at away games still turn from the opposing bench to face the university flag carried by the UST Yellow Jackets pep squad.与多数天主教院校一样，校园作息于 12 时与 18 时因三钟经暂停、15 时因救主慈悲祈祷暂停，客场观赛者在校歌时仍背对对方席位面向黄夹克啦啦队挥动的校旗。

• Hundreds of student organizations are coordinated by the Student Organizations Coordinating Council under the Central Student Council, the highest student body, and the annual inter-collegiate Thomasian Goodwill Games was inaugurated in the school year 2002-2003.数百个学生社团由中央学生会统辖下的社团协调委员会汇总，跨学院年度托马斯竞技赛创办于 2002-2003 学年。

• The UST Singers have twice won Choir of the World and the Champion of Champions title at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, the UST Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1927, performs as a resident company at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe won the UAAP cheerdance competition eight times, in 1994 to 1996 and 2002 to 2006.圣托马斯大学合唱团两度夺得世界合唱团冠军及兰戈伦国际音乐节连冠王称号，1927 年创立的大学交响乐团为菲律宾文化中心驻团乐团，Salinggawi 舞团 1994 至 1996 年及 2002 至 2006 年八夺大学体育联合会啦啦舞冠军。

• The Varsitarian, established in January 1928 by students of the UST Literary Club led by Jose Villa Panganiban, is the oldest Catholic student newspaper in the Philippines and hosts the annual Inkblots campus journalism fellowship, while Tiger TV and Tiger Radio operate under the Tiger Media Network and the university owned the AM station DZST from 1950 to 1963.The Varsitarian 由文学社学生于 1928 年 1 月创办，发起人为何塞·比利亚·潘加尼班，是菲律宾最古老的天主教学生报纸并主办全国校园新闻营，虎网旗下经营虎电视与虎广播，学校 1950 至 1963 年还持有调幅电台 DZST。

• UST's teams have competed in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines since 1938 and have won the seniors' overall championship 49 times in the 78 seasons the title was awarded, including a record 14 consecutive titles from 1998 to 2011, while the men's basketball team took 18 UAAP crowns and the Golden Tigresses volleyball team 16.该校代表队自 1938 年起参加菲律宾大学体育联合会，大学部团体总冠军在颁奖的 78 季中夺得 49 次，含 1998 至 2011 年创纪录的十四连冠，男篮获 18 个联合会冠军，金虎女排获 16 个。

• Greek-letter fraternities of the law and medicine faculties, of which Tau Mu Sigma Phi, founded 1946, and Gamma Delta Epsilon, founded February 1948, were the oldest, were suspended in 2018 after the death of civil law student Horacio Castillo III, though Gamma Delta Epsilon had produced two chief justices, Andres Narvasa and Diosdado Peralta.法学院与医学院的希腊字母社团中以 1946 年的 Tau Mu Sigma Phi 和 1948 年 2 月的 Gamma Delta Epsilon 最古老，2018 年民法学生奥拉西奥·卡斯蒂略三世身故后全校中止对其承认，而 Gamma Delta Epsilon 曾走出两位首席大法官安德烈斯·纳尔瓦萨与迪奥斯达多·佩拉尔塔。

Notable people

• Persons affiliated with UST are called Thomasians, and alumni and faculty include 30 canonised Catholic saints, four presidents of the Philippines, 17 senators, nine chief justices, 22 national artists, one national scientist and five billionaires.圣托马斯大学师生校友统称托马斯人，其中有 30 位获宣圣的天主教圣人、菲律宾总统 4 位、参议员 17 位、首席大法官 9 位、国家艺术家 22 位、国家科学家 1 位与富豪 5 位。

• Its founders and early shapers include Miguel de Benavides, the executors Domingo de Nieva and Bernardo de Santa Catalina who built the first college, and the priest-engineer Roque Ruaño who designed the 1924-1927 Main Building.创办与奠基人物包括贝纳维德斯、建成首座书院的遗嘱执行人德·涅瓦与德·圣卡塔利娜，以及设计 1924-1927 年主楼的道明会士工程师鲁阿尼奥。

• Jose Rizal studied medicine there from 1878 to 1882, his scholastic records are preserved in the university archives, a first edition of his novel Noli Me Tangere was scanned in the Lumina Pandit digitisation programme, and his 1891 novel El Filibusterismo casts Father Millon and the student Placido Penitente as figures of the university.何塞·黎刹 1878 至 1882 年在此习医，学籍档案存于校内，其小说《不许出卖》初版经 Lumina Pandit 数字化工程扫描，1891 年小说《起义者》以校内米永神父与学生佩尼滕特为原型。

• The four Philippine presidents among Thomasians are Manuel L. Quezon, José P. Laurel, who founded the Lyceum of the Philippines University, Sergio Osmeña and Diosdado Macapagal, and the roll also includes the Spanish prime minister Marcelo Azcárraga.出身该校的四位菲律宾总统为曼努埃尔·奎松、创办莱塞乌姆菲律宾大学的何塞·劳雷尔、塞尔希奥·奥斯梅尼亚与迪奥斯达多·马卡帕加尔，名单中还有西班牙首相马塞洛·阿斯卡拉加。

• Churchmen include Cardinal José Tomás Sánchez and the Archbishop of Manila José Lázaro Advincula, the current Master of the Order of Preachers being a Thomasian, and honoris causa degrees went to Douglas MacArthur, King Juan Carlos I, Archbishop Jaime Sin and Corazon Aquino.教会人士含枢机若瑟·桑切斯与马尼拉总主教拉扎罗·阿德文库拉，道明会现任总会长亦为托马斯人，名誉博士则授予麦克阿瑟、西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯一世、总主教 Jaime Sin 与科拉松·阿基诺。

• In Philippine higher education Thomasians include Ignacio Villamor, the first Filipino president of the University of the Philippines, Fernando Calderon, the first Filipino dean of its College of Medicine, Salvador Araneta, founder of FEATI University and De La Salle Araneta University, and José P. Laurel, founder of the Lyceum of the Philippines University.高教界托马斯人有菲律宾大学首任菲籍校长伊格纳西奥·比利亚莫尔、其医学院首任菲籍院长费尔南多·卡尔德龙、FEATI 大学与德拉萨阿兰内塔大学创办人萨尔瓦多·阿兰内塔及莱塞乌姆菲律宾大学创办人何塞·劳雷尔。

• Literary Thomasians include the writers Nick Joaquin, F. Sionil Jose, Paz Latorena, Teodoro Locsin Sr., Bienvenido Lumbera, Cirilo Bautista, Ophelia Dimalanta and Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, the philosopher Alfredo Co, and the historians Gregorio F. Zaide, William Henry Scott, Fidel Villarroel and Jose Victor Torres.文学界校友包括作家 Nick Joaquin、F. Sionil Jose、Paz Latorena、老 Teodoro Locsin、Bienvenido Lumbera、Cirilo Bautista、Ophelia Dimalanta 与 Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo，哲学家 Alfredo Co，以及史家 Gregorio F. Zaide、William Henry Scott、Fidel Villarroel 与 Jose Victor Torres。

• In medicine and business Thomasians include at least 13 of the 31 previous secretaries of health, Makati Medical Center co-founders Mariano M. Alimurung, Jose Y. Fores and Raul G. Fores, Belo Medical Group foundress Vicki Belo, the Jollibee Foods Corporation founder Tony Tan Caktiong after whom the Santa Rosa innovation centre is named, and May Parsons, a UST nursing alumna who administered the first COVID-19 vaccine dose in the United Kingdom.医药与商界校友中，历任卫生部长 31 人内至少 13 人出自该校，有马卡蒂医疗中心联合创办人 Mariano M. Alimurung 与 Jose Y. Fores、Raul G. Fores，Belo 医疗集团创办人 Vicki Belo，快乐蜂创办人 Tony Tan Caktiong，圣罗莎创新中心即以其名命名，还有护理校友 May Parsons，她在英国施打首剂新冠疫苗。

• In sport Thomasians include the Olympians Jethro Dionisio in shooting, Donald Geisler and Tshomlee Go in taekwondo and Ernest John Obiena in pole vault, world pool champion Rubilen Amit, and the Golden Tigresses players Ging Balse, Aiza Maizo-Pontillas, Maika Ortiz, Dindin Santiago, Sisi Rondina and Eya Laure.体育界校友有射击选手 Jethro Dionisio、跆拳道选手 Donald Geisler 与 Tshomlee Go、撑竿跳高选手 Ernest John Obiena、世界撞球冠军 Rubilen Amit，及金虎女排成员 Ging Balse、Aiza Maizo-Pontillas、Maika Ortiz、Dindin Santiago、Sisi Rondina 与 Eya Laure。

• Several Metro Manila thoroughfares carry Thomasian names, among them Quezon Avenue, Recto Avenue, Lacson Avenue, Legarda Street, Ortigas Avenue and Osmeña Highway, and Manila's Rizal Avenue recalls the university's most famous medical student.马尼拉都会区多条干道以托马斯人命名，如奎松大道、雷克托大道、拉森大道、莱加尔达街、奥蒂加斯大道与奥斯梅尼亚快速路，黎刹大道则令人忆起该校最著名的医学肄业生。