Academics at Ateneo
Ateneo de Manila believes learning should encompass your overall development, giving you the tools and skills necessary to build a career, to realize your full potential as an individual, and to become a responsible and engaged citizen.
Student-centered learning places you at the heart of instruction. Teaching facilitates active participation and independent inquiry, and instills in you the joy of learning inside and outside the classroom.
How and when you learn is just as important. Ignatian pedagogy emphasizes learning, grounded in experience, repetition for depth, the provision of many examples and exercises to ensure mastery, and constant guidance and personal care (cura personalis). This process of self-reflection on deeper meaning and purposes leads to a careful weighing of options and considered action.
Your Ateneo college journey will hopefully transform you into a person of competence, conscience, compassion, and commitment. An Ateneo education does not simply prepare you for a job; it prepares you for life.
Core Curriculum: The Heart of Ateneo College Education
The core curriculum is the hallmark and heart of your Ateneo college education. It strives for both academic competence and value formation, through a deliberate progression of learning.
Foundational courses sharpen your language and communication skills and equip you with basic scientific and mathematical tools. Courses which explore faith and spirituality, and facilitate self-understanding, prepare you for investigating and knowing the world, and defining yourself in the world – bringing you to a readiness to discern life options and make life choices.
Our hope is that you will become a leader who will engage the world and commit yourself to using your competences to work for social transformation, rooted in a mature Christian faith.
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Majors and Minors: What to study
In Ateneo, there is an undergraduate major that will suit your interests and future plans. Each one of the 49 majors and specializations is comprehensive and rigorous, providing you with the best preparation for your future career, or for further studies.
More about Degree Programs, Majors, and Minors | List of Majors | List of Minors
Co-Curriculum: Formation and Social Development
Develop and integrate your personal, academic, socio-cultural, and spiritual lives through the co-curriculum, or the Integrated Ateneo Formation Program (InAF).
You will be honed to harness your academic competence and training in the service of nation-building even as you act on your responsibilities as global citizens. You will be guided by Ignatian discernment and nurtured by a personal relationship with God, strongly oriented towards faith and justice, and rooted in culture.
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A World of Opportunity
Learn more about our faculty, interships and student mobility programs, and research and creative work, and how you can contribute to knowledge with real-world impact.
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Supporting Your Learning
Physically or virtually, Ateneo is ready to support the learning needs of students with modern facilities and top-notch infrastructure.
You have access to state-of-the-art laboratories, workshops, performance and exhibition spaces, and studios, fully equipped with professional-standard equipment and supported by knowledgeable staff. Online, AteneoBlueCloud serves as our virtual campus, bringing together learners and educators on a single platform for learning and exchange of ideas.
