Brief History of the University of Makati

source: umak.edu.ph

The University of Makati (UMak), formerly the Pamantasan ng Makati, is a city university in Makati City, National Capital Region,Philippines.

In the year of 1987, the University was founded as Makati Polytechnic Community College (MPCC). The MPCC offered a program in Technical and Vocational for Industrial and Business Technology, and due to the growing number of curricular offerings, its status was elevated in 1987 to that of a full-fledged college, and was then renamed Makati College. Three years later, it was merged with the former Fort Andres Bonifacio College on January 10, 1990. This event paved the way for the transformation of the college into a university.

By virtue of Municipal Ordinance No. 433, the Pamantasan ng Makati becamea chartered university on December 1991 under the administration of Jejomar C. Binay. On August 2002, City Ordinance 2002-111 was approved amending City Ordinance No. 99-443 revising the Pamantasan ng Makati Charter to change the official name of Pamantasan ng Makati to University of Makati.