Wesleyan University Philippines
Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P) is a private, non-stock, non-profit and non-sectarian university located in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines and ran by the United Methodist Church (UMC). Founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College, it is named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The university offers pre-elementary, grade school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate programs. It also initiated a SHARE (Studentship Assistance for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation through Education) program, the first school in Central Luzon to integrate hearing-impaired students into mainstream classes.
The University was granted a five-year autonomy by the Commission on Higher Education effective March 11, 2009.
Its acronym may be written as WUP or WU-P.
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