UST Baccalaureate Mass

UST Baccalaureate Mass
Status	Active
Frequency	Annual
Venue	UST Football Field
Most recent	20 May 2016
Previous event	15 May 2015
Attendance	8,048 (2015)

The UST Baccalaureate Mass is annual event of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.

With the change of the academic calendar of the university in the year 2014-2015, the mass was moved to May from March.^[1]

History

Seat plan of the 2013 Baccalaureate Mass at the UST Football Field

List of class songs

Year	Song
2011	Richard Pazcoguin - "Children of Unending Grace"
2012	Patrick Castaneda - "Bakit mo mahal ang UST?"
2013	Various artists - "Walang Iwanan"

Eucharistic Celebration

The University's Baccalaureate Mass both for Freshmen and Out-going is led by the Rector of the University of Santo Tomas. Each college, department, faculty, institute, high school will have 2 representatives carrying their flag or emblem. It is arranged by the year of establishment, first will be the Faculty of Sacred Theology and the last will be the ICCS.

Ceremony of the Light

Pyromusical display

Pyromusical display at the Baccalaureate Mass

Date	Location and music	Ref.
March 25, 2011	UST Grandstand
	Duration: 8:25 Richard Pazcoguin - "Children of Unending Grace" IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth 12 Girls Band - "New Classicism" David Garrett - "Smooth Criminal"
March 23, 2012	UST Grandstand
	Duration: 6:34 Alfred Newman - "20th Century Fox fanfare" Elton John - "Circle of Life" Phil Collins - "You'll Be in My Heart" John Williams - "The Raiders' March" Hans Zimmer - "He's a Pirate"
March 19, 2013	UST Grandstand
	Duration: 5:00 John Lennon - "Imagine" Phil Collins - "Another Day in Paradise" David Guetta - "Just One Last Time"
March 21, 2014	UST Grandstand
	Theme/Show title: The Rise of the Snow Queen The long awaited spectacular ending Duration: 00:00
May 15, 2015	UST Grandstand
	Theme/Show title: Rock Ages Duration: 6:16 Drew Boley, Wolfgang Von Colt - "I Wanna Rock" Drew Boley, Sherrie Christian - "Waiting for a Girl (Boy) Like You" Lonny Barnett, Patricia Whitmore - "We Built This City/We're Not Gonna Take It"
May 20, 2016	UST Grandstand
	Duration: 6:33 Vanessa Carlton − "A Thousand Miles" Train − "When I Look to the Sky" OneRepublic − "Secrets" Hoobastank − "The Reason"

Graduates

College	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Ecclesiastical Studies, Faculty of				75	72
Civil Law, Faculty of				49	101
Medicine & Surgery, Faculty of				499	520
Pharmacy, Faculty of				698	682
Arts and Letters, Faculty of				1,019	994
Engineering, Faculty of				590	841
Education, College of				432	482
Science, College of				563	618
Architecture, College of				369	393
Commerce and Business Administration, College of				981	916
Graduate School				300	217
Music, Conservatory of				55	17
Nursing, College of				455	346
Rehabilitation Sciences, College of				241	242
Fine Arts and Design, College of				423	564
Accountancy, Alfredo M. Velayo College of				577	753
Tourism & Hospitality Management, College of				443	456
Information and Computing Sciences, Institute of

References

1. UST moves opening of classes to July, Campus Gazette, The Philippine Star. February 11, 2015.