Ateneo de Manila University

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Ateneo de Manila University

Motto Lux in Domino ("Light in the Lord")
Established 1859
Type Private, Jesuit University
President Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, S.J.
Undergraduates Approx. 7,500
Postgraduates Approx. 3,000
Location Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Campus 1.2 km² (Loyola Heights campus)
Hymn A Song for Mary
Colors Blue and white
Nickname Ateneo Blue Eagles
Mascot Blue Eagle
Website www.ateneo.edu

The Ateneo de Manila University (also called "Ateneo de Manila" or simply "the Ateneo") is a private university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. Its main campus is at Loyola Heights in Quezon City, Metro Manila. It offers elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate level education. It teaches many things, for example Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, Social Sciences, Theology, and Pure and Applied Sciences.

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The Ateneo de Manila University has three campuses in Metro Manila. Several thousand teachers teach students of different ages, from elementary to postgraduate. The Loyola Schools have around 7,500 undergraduate students and around 3,000 graduate students, making the Ateneo small, in number of students, compared to many other Philippine universities.

The University began in 1859 when the City of Manila turned over the Escuela Municipal, a public primary school in Intramuros, to Spanish Jesuits. The school took the name Ateneo when it began teaching secondary education in 1865, and it has since grown into a university.

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