Principal's Message for the Opening of School Year 2011-2012

My dear students,

I warmly welcome you back from your summer vacation.  I sincerely hope you spent great moments with your families.  I have always believed that family members, together with good health and well-rounded education are the best treasures we should cherish. 

Our faculty and staff did a lot of preparations while you were away. Our office and custodial staff did a good job in assuring you a more pleasant school environment  that relates well to our school community’s commitment to excellence, caring, and gentleness. I hope you find time to reciprocate their friendly greetings and gestures of supportiveness.

Our top-caliber teachers spent three weeks of intensive preparations for a great school year.  Among them are fresh graduates with excellent academic credentials.  Together they worked on our curriculum benchmarks and standards towards significantly higher achievement targets in the Advanced Placement (AP) examinations  and National Achievement Tests (NAT) and the admission of our graduates in the best universities both in the Philippines and abroad.  They also made initial preparations to engage you, my dear students, in our Creative Social Outreach (CSO) in a much deeper and sustained levels. 

I am greatly pleased that our teachers have pledged to collaborate well and extensively as a professional learning community.  The teachers have worked as a  STRIPES Team and an ESLRs Team and together they developed the MITIS Faculty Shared Commitments. I hope in the near future we can take pride in having the MITIS Parents and Guardians’ Shared Commitments

I join the teachers in their deep conviction that “the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil” as quoted from Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The teachers are out to show you much more love and respect and I hope such will lead you to love and enjoy your school work more and in return to love and respect your teachers more.  This is why we find ourselves celebrating  Courtesy Week  and Recognition Day in August.  We celebrate our commitment to Respect  and Excellence as core values of our school. 

Towards the second half of August we shall devote time to celebrate Ninoy Aquino Day, National Heroes Day, and the Muslim feast of Eid ul- Fitr. These celebrations are meant to promote justice and peace, love of country, brotherhood, and faith in God which I believe rest firmly at the core of global citizenship.

We look forward to the spring of 2012 when we shall have the WASC full accreditation visit.  It will be a milestone in our school’s journey from its humble beginnings in 2007 towards becoming an exemplary international school.  It will be a year of hard work but I hope you will enjoy and love the many pleasant things good education offers to all learners.

With best regards to your families, I remain

Very sincerely,

Dr. Bienvenido V. Santos

Principal

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2010 World's Best Universities: Social Sciences

World's Best Universities: Social Sciences

Posted September 21, 2010

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U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world's top universities for social sciences in 2010.

 Schools Ranked by Location World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Asian and Middle Eastern Universities World's Best Universities: Australian and New Zealand Universities World's Best Universities: British and European Universities World's Best Universities: Canadian Universities World's Best Universities: Latin American Universities   Schools Ranked by Subject World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Arts and Humanities Universities World's Best Universities: Engineering and IT Universities World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities World's Best Universities: Natural & Physical Sciences Universities World's Best Universities: Social Sciences Universities   Methodologies World's Best Universities: Methodology World's Best Universities: About the Rankings World's Best Universities: Academic Peer Review World's Best Universities: Citations per Faculty Member World's Best Universities: Employer Review Survey World's Best Universities: International Student and International Faculty Factors World's Best Universities: Statistical Scores and Weightings World's Best Universities: Student-to-Faculty Ratio World's Best Universities: Subject Area Rankings 

Rank		Subject Score	Citations per Paper
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	100.0	4.5
2	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	90.3	2.8
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	89.7	3.0
4	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)United Kingdom	84.1	2.9
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)United States	83.7	3.8
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States	80.5	4.6
7	University of ChicagoUnited States	74.1	3.4
8	Yale UniversityUnited States	72.9	4.0
9	Columbia UniversityUnited States	68.7	3.7
10	Princeton UniversityUnited States	67.2	5.3
11	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States	66.5	3.7
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States	64.8	6.0
13	Australian National University (ANU)Australia	61.0	2.2
14	University of MichiganUnited States	56.8	4.3
15	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)United States	56.4	3.9
16	National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore	56.0	1.9
17	University of TorontoCanada	55.6	2.8
18	University of British Columbia (UBC)Canada	54.8	3.4
19	New York University (NYU)United States	54.3	3.7
20	The University of TokyoJapan	53.9	1.4
21	University of MelbourneAustralia	49.9	2.1
22	Cornell UniversityUnited States	49.8	3.4
23	Peking UniversityChina	47.8	1.3
24	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom	46.7	2.5
25	UCL (University College London)United Kingdom	46.5	3.0
26	Duke UniversityUnited States	46.4	4.0
27	McGill UniversityCanada	46.1	2.4
28	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	45.6	4.1
29	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	45.1	3.0
30	University of SydneyAustralia	44.0	1.8
31	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States	43.2	4.0
32	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	41.9	3.1
33	University of New South Wales (UNSW)Australia	41.0	2.0
34	Monash UniversityAustralia	40.7	1.6
35	University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong	40.3	1.7
36	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)United States	39.3	2.8
37	Université Paris 1, Pantheon-SorbonneFrance	38.1	0.9
38	University of AucklandNew Zealand	38.0	3.0
39	Kyoto UniversityJapan	37.0	1.5
40	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)Germany	36.8	2.6
41	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	36.7	2.8
42	Seoul National University (SNU)South Korea	36.4	1.2
43	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong	35.9	2.0
44	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)United States	35.5	3.8
45	University of North Carolina, Chapel HillUnited States	35.0	3.7
46	King's College London (KCL)United Kingdom	34.9	4.0
46	Tsinghua UniversityChina	34.9	0.7
48	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)United States	34.7	4.7
48	Università Commerciale Luigi BocconiItaly	34.7	2.9
50	University of MinnesotaUnited States	34.5	3.3
51	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	34.4	1.5
52	Sciences Po, ParisFrance	34.0	0.6
53	Freie Universität BerlinGermany	33.7	2.3
54	Fudan UniversityChina	33.1	0.7
54	Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4France	33.1	0.6
56	University of CopenhagenDenmark	32.7	2.1
57	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	32.5	3.8
58	Brown UniversityUnited States	31.9	4.6
58	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong	31.9	2.9
60	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Singapore	31.8	1.4
61	University of Queensland (UQ)Australia	31.7	2.1
62	Universität Pompeu FabraSpain	31.6	4.0
63	Boston UniversityUnited States	31.4	3.0
64	Stockholm School of EconomicsSweden	31.3	2.5
65	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	31.0	2.9
65	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	31.0	2.7
65	University of WashingtonUnited States	31.0	3.5
65	Uppsala UniversitySweden	31.0	2.2
65	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)Belgium	31.0	2.9
70	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)United States	30.7	5.0
70	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	30.7	3.9
72	Trinity College DublinIreland	30.2	1.6
72	National Taiwan University (NTU)Taiwan	30.2	1.1
74	Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenBelgium	30.1	2.7
74	Universität MannheimGermany	30.1	2.2
76	Lund UniversitySweden	29.9	1.9
77	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	29.6	3.7
78	Università di BolognaItaly	29.5	2.2
78	Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand	29.5	1.9
80	University of EssexUnited Kingdom	29.4	2.3
81	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	29.3	2.4
82	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany	29.1	2.1
83	Université Toulouse 1, CapitoleFrance	29.0	1.7
84	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	28.9	2.3
85	Universität Autónoma de BarcelonaSpain	28.0	1.4
86	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)United States	27.8	2.7
87	University of HelsinkiFinland	27.7	1.5
88	Ohio State UniversityUnited States	27.5	3.0
88	Waseda UniversityJapan	27.5	0.7
88	HEC Paris, ParisTechFrance	27.5	2.0
91	SOAS - School of Oriental and African StudiesUnited Kingdom	27.4	0.0
92	Stockholm UniversitySweden	27.3	2.6
93	Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom	27.1	2.9
94	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	27.0	3.5
95	University of IndonesiaIndonesia	26.9	1.9
96	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Switzerland	26.8	2.3
96	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)France	26.8	2.0
96	University of Western OntarioCanada	26.8	3.3
99	University of OsloNorway	26.6	2.0
99	Georgetown UniversityUnited States	26.6	2.2

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