The Philippine higher education context
The Philippine higher education system is one of the largest and
most established in Asia, catering to a total of 1.3 million students,
enrolled in 78 state colleges and universities and over 800 private
colleges and universities. In spite of competitive national college
entrance examinations which admit only the top half of all wh o wish to
go to college, socio-economic pressures and value systems that cause the
majority to aspire to a college degree result in increasingly large
numbers entering college. This, coupled with the inability of the
Government to provide more student places in public higher education,
has resulted in the growth of strong and vigorous private institutions of
man y different types, from stock-profit schools of questionable quality,
to foundation-type universities of world-class standards, of which D e La
Salle University is one.