page_title: UST Quadricentennial Celebration
section_title: Infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: UST Quadricentennial Celebration / Infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: The UST Quadricentennial Park Fountain
context_page_description: The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2011. The agenda before the quadricentennial in 2011 included the introduction of new academic programs, improvements in the university's infrastructure, and other projects to raise UST's national and international prominence and promote its role as a social catalyst.
  Plans to open satellite campuses in Santa Rosa, Laguna and General Santos City are being put in place.
  Physical developments for the Sampaloc campus are ongoing. The Plaza Mayor in front the Main Building, the Quadricentennial Square which will feature the Tetraglobal sculpture, the Quadricentennial Fountain, and the Quadricentennial Alumni Walkway were constructed in 2006. To accommodate the needs of extra space for the growing number of student activities, the UST Tan Yan Kee Student Center was built in front of the Miguel de Benavides Library. The more than 80-year-old Main Building, and the artifacts and art works in the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences, were placed under the preservation of the UST Heritage Conservation program in December 2008.
caption: UST Quadricentennial Fountain
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