The Mapúa Institute of Technology, referred to informally as Mapúa, is a 80-year old technology-focused school located in the heart of the Philippine capital of Manila. With 15,000 students in college level it is the biggest engineering school in the Philippines, accounting for about 8% of engineering graduates every year. The Institute alsoruns a pre-engineering high school with about 1,800 students. The Institute's name derives from its founder, Don Tomas Mapúa, an architecture graduate of Cornell University. The Institute was fully owned by the Mapúa family until 1999 when it was acquired 100% by the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) through a company now known as iPeople, Inc. Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco chairs the Mapúa Board of Trustees. Alfonso S. Yuchengco, III is the Vice-Chairman.

The Institute prides itself with the quality of its architecture and engineering programs which has been demonstrated time and again in the long history of topnotch performance of its graduates in the government-administered professional licensure examinations. Under the new YGC management, the quality of instruction is being enhanced even as new dimensions are being added to the Institute's mission. Aside from excellence in teaching, the Institute now aims to develop its research, as well as its consultancy and community extension capabilities. It considers it its mission not only to transmit but also to generate and apply knowledge. The Institute will be at the the frontlines of problem solving for the benefit of the Filipinos and humankind. All this while not forgetting that the core of its strength lies and shall continue to lie in its engineering and architecture educational programs, programs that are well-balanced by the 2-year general education curriculum in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

In recognition of the growing needs for IT professionals locally and worldwide, the Institute is establishing more programs in IT through regular degree programs and 2-year associate degree programs as well as short-term programs for specific and special competencies. The School of IT and the Center for Continuing Education and Special Competencies handle these programs.

To put its consultancy services on a solid organizational footing, the Institute very recently established a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Mapúa TechServ, Inc. To handle research it shall similarly organize the Mapúa TechSearch, Inc.