University of the Philippines Open University

The University of the Philippines Attainable University (also referred to as UPOU, UP Attainable University, or UP OpenU) is a attainable analysis university and ambit acquirements academy headquartered in Los Baños, Laguna. It was accustomed on February 23, 1995 as the fifth basic university of the University of the Philippines System. Its authorization is to accommodate apprenticeship opportunities to individuals ambitious for college apprenticeship and bigger abilities but were clumsy to yield advantage of acceptable modes of apprenticeship because of claimed and able obligations. It is accustomed as the country's top attainable and ambit acquirements academy by advantage of Republic Act No. 10650, aswell accepted as the Attainable and Ambit Acquirements Act of 2014

UP OpenU provides superior college and continuing apprenticeship to Filipinos through the ambit apprenticeship system. Its mission is to accord its acceptance academic qualification, as able-bodied as to advance in them the conduct and adequacy to become constant learners who are at home in today's ability society.

The Commission on College Apprenticeship (CHED) has declared the UP OpenU as the National Center of Excellence in Attainable Acquirements and Ambit Apprenticeship in acceptance of its achievements in this acreage and its basic role in blame the frontiers of acquirements in account to the Filipino nation.

The U.P. Attainable University aims to:
Offer through attainable and ambit acquirements amount and non-degree programs that are acknowledging to the needs of learners and of the association of which they are a part;

Develop a arrangement of continuing apprenticeship to sustain able advance and advance constant learning;
Develop and acclimate supply systems adapted to ambit learners;The U.P. Attainable University delivers its programs and courses through ambit apprenticeship (DE). In this mode, agents and learners are afar by time and space. Learners abstraction in an absolute self-learning appearance application distinctively advised acquirements abstracts and resources. Teaching and acquirements is advised through the use of technology like print, audio, video, and the internet. Acceptance collaborate with their advisers and anniversary added through basic classrooms, email, and web conferencing. Almost all UPOU courses are offered through online acquirements mode, authoritative them attainable to learners from altered locations of the country and the world.

Provide administration in the development of attainable acquirements and ambit apprenticeship ability in the country and in the adapted use of advice and advice technologies of education; and
Make advisory bales attainable to assorted publics through collaborative arrangements, institutional agreements, and added adapted mechanisms.

The U.P. Attainable University Headquarters is amid in Los Baños, Laguna, abutting to the International Rice Analysis Institute. Set adjoin the arresting appearance of Mount Makiling, its capital authoritative and addendum barrio abode the capital offices,including the Appointment of the Chancellor (OC), the Appointment of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), the Appointment of the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration (OVCFA), and the Faculties of Studies Offices. The Center Center for Digital Acquirements (CCDL) Auditorium is aswell in this complex.

A above battleground in the UPOU Headquarters is the U.P. Attainable University Oblation carve that stands in the Oblation Plaza in foreground of the capital building. It is a replica of National Artist Guillermo Tolentino's U.P. Oblation, which depicts a man adverse advancement with accoutrements outstretched, emblematic affectionate alms of oneself to the country. UPOU’s Oblation stands on a basement with a ribbon-like banderole bouncing about the basement and the Oblation. This gives an aftereffect of the banderole appropriation the Oblation into greater heights and gives it the great ability that is allegorical of UPOU's prime cold of addition admission to UP superior education. It was advised and accomplished by University Artist and UPOU Chancellor Dr. Grace J. Alfonso in 2005. The UPOU Oblation bronze aswell provides a august accomplishments to the Oblation Plaza area the anniversary admission contest are held.
The University aswell maintains a digital appointment at the National Computer Center Architecture in Diliman, Quezon City.