01/07/2026
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฆ: ๐จ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ. ๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐
๐ฐ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ.
The Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) proudly marks a significant milestone in its institutional journey with the official unveiling of the College of Management and Multidisciplinary Studies (CMMS)โa renewed identity that reflects the College's expanded academic mandate, evolving vision, and steadfast commitment to excellence.
More than a change in name, the transition from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) to the College of Management and Multidisciplinary Studies (CMMS) represents a strategic transformation that embraces innovation, interdisciplinary education, industry relevance, and academic leadership while preserving the values and traditions that have long defined the College.
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The College traces its roots to the former College of Liberal Arts (CLA), which served as one of the University's cornerstone academic units. For decades, CLA fulfilled a vital role as a service college, providing general education courses in the humanities, social sciences, communication, and related disciplines that complemented TUP's technology-oriented academic programs.
Through its unwavering commitment to quality education, the College cultivated generations of graduates equipped with critical thinking skills, effective communication, ethical leadership, and social responsibilityโqualities that continue to define its graduates today.
As higher education evolved and the demands of industry became increasingly dynamic, the College progressively expanded its academic focus by strengthening its programs in management, business administration, entrepreneurship, hospitality management, and multidisciplinary studies, reflecting the University's commitment to producing graduates who are academically competent, industry-responsive, globally competitive, and socially responsible.
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This transformative journey reached a defining milestone with the issuance of Implementing Order No. 32, Series of 2025, which officially renamed the College of Liberal Arts as the College of Management and Multidisciplinary Studies (CMMS).
The renaming signifies far more than institutional reclassification. It embodies the College's expanded role in advancing management education, entrepreneurship, hospitality, and multidisciplinary learning while remaining grounded in the liberal arts tradition that nurtures critical inquiry, creativity, ethical values, and human-centered leadership.
The new identity reflects the College's vision of becoming a dynamic academic institution that responds proactively to emerging societal needs, technological advancement, and the rapidly changing global landscape.
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Alongside its new name, CMMS proudly introduces its official brand identity, designed to visually represent the College's mission, aspirations, and academic character.
The newly unveiled logo embodies the College's commitment to excellence through carefully crafted visual elements that symbolize knowledge, innovation, service, leadership, organizational growth, entrepreneurship, resilience, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Every color, symbol, and design component reflects the College's guiding philosophy of developing competent professionals, transformative leaders, and socially responsible citizens prepared to make meaningful contributions across industries and communities.
Complementing the new visual identity is the introduction of the College's official institutional colors, representing the values, aspirations, and enduring principles that define CMMS as a premier academic institution committed to innovation, inclusivity, integrity, and excellence.
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๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
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As part of its institutional transformation, CMMS also unveils its restructured organizational structure, designed to enhance academic governance, operational efficiency, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.
The reorganization aligns the College's administrative and academic functions with its expanded academic mandate while fostering greater synergy among departments, faculty, staff, students, alumni, industry partners, and the broader community. This renewed organizational framework positions CMMS to respond more effectively to the evolving demands of higher education, research, extension, and internationalization.
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Today, the College of Management and Multidisciplinary Studies is composed of five academic departments:
Department of Business Administration (DBA)
Department of Entrepreneurship (DEn)
Department of Hospitality Management (DHM)
Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS)
Graduate Programs (GP)
The College offers undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare learners for leadership and professional excellence across diverse fields, including:
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Operations Management (BSBA-OM)
Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship (BSEn)
Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management (BSHM)
Master in Management (MM)
Doctor in Management Science (DMS)
Anchored on the University's core functions of instruction, research, extension, and stakeholder engagement, CMMS continues to cultivate graduates who possess technical competence, strategic thinking, entrepreneurial mindset, ethical leadership, and a deep commitment to sustainable development and nation-building.
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The unveiling of the College of Management and Multidisciplinary Studies marks the beginning of a new chapterโone that honors the rich legacy of the College of Liberal Arts while embracing the opportunities of a rapidly changing world.
Though the name has changed and a new visual identity now represents the College, its commitment remains unwavering: to provide transformative education, foster impactful research, strengthen community engagement, and produce graduates who lead with competence, integrity, innovation, and compassion.
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฆ, ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐โ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฝ๐๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ. ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ. ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฐ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ.
