As a public university receiving most of its funding from the City of Manila, PLM operates on an annual budget of more than PhP300 million. With the pledge of Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim to increase the city’s allocation to the University, it shall integrate into the system technical and vocational courses for the underprivileged but deserving students of Manila. These are in addition to its existing fifty-three (53) single-degree undergraduate and forty-nine (49) masters, doctoral and graduate diploma programs offered in twelve (12) colleges, two (2) professional schools and five (5) graduate schools. A set of distance learning programs, an integrated learning center for toddlers, and a score of specialized centers and a training hospital, the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, all contribute to the University’s services to the community.

In the simple language of the University President, Atty. Adel A. Tamano envisions “PLM as a haven where students are provided education with decent facilities and modern technology, where the faculty and staff receive fair wages, as well as medical, health, and transportation benefits, where the administration is transparent and accountable. These visions may not be grand ones, but if we are able to achieve them, then we would have set the conditions needed by our students to perform at their very best.”

Together with the University officials, faculty, employees, stakeholders, students and their families, the new management empowers the PLM community to have a stake in the affairs of the institution. In the process of becoming and developing a new culture of trust, openness, transparency and accountability, everyone appreciates any little opportunity to participate and innovate in reshaping the future of the University and educating the people it serves, particularly the youth.