After holding classes at a shopping mall and spare classrooms in other schools, Taguig?s city-run university will finally have its own campus come June.

Mayor Freddie Tinga said the 54-classroom building of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Taguig in Barangay Lower Bicutan will be ready for the new schoolyear.

According to Joselito Mastrili, head of City Planning and Development, the PLT campus sits on a 1.5-hectare lot at the back of Taguig?s Justice Hall.

The university was launched October 2006 with night classes in available classrooms of E. M. Signal Elementary School in Barangay Signal Village, the Ricardo Papa High School in Barangay Tuktukan and the Taguig Elementary School in Barangay Sta. Ana.

Last year, the university temporarily moved to the Sunshine Mall at the FTI Complex in Barangay Western Bicutan, whose third and fourth floors were converted to 31 classrooms, a computer laboratory and an administration office.

?More than 5,000 students of PLT will finally have a campus that they can call their own,? Tinga said, adding that along with elevators and backup power supply, the univesity would have a swimming pool and an auditorium good for 1,500 people.

In partnership with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, the university offers ladderized degree programs in Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology, Information Technology, Office Administration, Marketing Management, Entrepreneurial Administration, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Tourism, Travel Management and Criminology. Ferdinand Fabella