ADMU partners with UK university

THE Ateneo de Manila University ( ADMU) on Monday launced a landmark partnership with Queen Mary University of London for various educational programs that include data science, and innovation, media and arts technology.

This partnership stands on a combined 300 years of academic excellence and leadership, across a multitude of disciplines and perspectives.

evolving realms of data science and creative media technology, the partnership was formed yo serve a growing need for individuals immersed in a global context adept at imagining, creating and innovating.

"The QMUL partnership is not only founded on a commitment to academic excellence in emerg grounded on similarethos of service and inclusive development. With a shared vision, we bring together the strenghts of these two institutions to help students become groundbreakers and thought-leaders of the digital age," Jose Cruz, SJ, Vice President - tions at the Ateneo de Manila University, said.

Commenting on the partnership, QMUL President and Principal, Prof.Colin Baily:

Mary University of London will be deepening its relationship with Ateneo de Manila University, one of the top universities in the Philippines. This partnership supports our plans to diversify Queen Mary’s international partnerships activity and ASEAN region. The programmes that we are developing with ADMU, in the areas of Big Data will equip students with the digital skills they need to navigate a more knowledge- based global economy.”

QMUL is one of the leading higher- education institutions in the UK. The University has over 130 years of teaching excellence and ranks in the top 25 in the world for its international outlook (THE World University organization that gathers 24 world- class research- intensive universities in the UK. Today, it is one of the few universities in the world that offers a Master’s degree in Media, Arts, and Technology and Data Science.

The partnership between ADMU and QMUL is in great - mission on Higher Education ( CHED) and British Council (BC) initiative Partnership under the Joint Development of Niche Programs. Under this initiative, CHED and BC provided seed funding and capacity building for ten Philippine universities to partner with UK institutions towards the development and delivery of transnational education programs (TNE) in niche areas critical to national and regional development.

degree programs. Such programs - livered by partner universities. as that envisioned by ADMU and QMUL, a student spends time in both universities and in the end gets two degrees from both institutions.