The 2016 – 2020 and 2020-2024 vision and mission of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines is congruent with the Philippine development thrusts and National Capital Region development thrusts of pursuing quality and innovative education, social and economic development, and improvement in the quality of life of each Filipinos. With these thrusts, the university to produce students who are globally competitive that can contribute towards the improvement quality of life of Filipinos.

The 2016 – 2020 and 2020-2024 vision and mission of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines is congruent with the Philippine development thrusts and National Capital Region development thrusts of pursuing quality and innovative education, social and economic development, and improvement in the quality of life of each Filipinos. With these thrusts, the university produces students who are globally competitive that can contribute towards the improvement of the quality of life of Filipinos.

The Institutional Development Plan of the university was revised in order to anchor with the new vision and mission statement. The new IDP from 2020-2024 expand the 2012-2020 from 8-point agenda to 12-point agenda. The new IDP emphasized on the system improvement on the process of delivery of services given to the stakeholders, ensuring welfare of the university’s administrative and faculty, and sustainable social development programs and projects.

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines developed its academic and non-academic activities based on the four-year Institutional Development Plan (IDP). The PUP IDP contains the vision, mission, goals and objectives, strategies, programs and projects, and budgetary requirements of the University. It is formulated through a collaborative effort of executive offices such as the Office of the President, Office of the Executive Vice President, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice President for Administration, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Services, Office of the Vice President for Research, Extension, and Development, Office of the Vice President for Finance, and Office of the Vice President for Branches and Satellite Campuses. After the formulation of the PUP IDP, it was cascaded as a guide in the operation of different academic and non-academic units of the university.

With the vision introduced during the term of President Emanuel C. De Guzman that is clearing the paths while laying new foundations to transform the Polytechnic University of the Philippines into an epistemic community, the university’s IDP was guided by the Eight-Point Agenda.

The first page of the 2018-2020 Institutional Plan is shown below.

The 13^th president of the university, Dr. Manuel M. Muhi, advances the Ten Pillars as his reform agenda in the next four years, 2020-2024. These Ten Pillars are the following:

The university uses a Top-Down- Bottom-Up Sequential approach in crafting the four-year Institutional Development Plan. The procedure starts with the information dissemination by the national government, through Commission on Higher Education (CHED), on the long-term goals and objectives of the education sector that will contribute to the Philippine Development Plan (PDP). Updated policies on budget spending from Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and SUC Levelling requirements from the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) are also obtained to determine the proper strategic actions and expenditures to meet such policies and requirements. Based on the inputs from the national government agencies and organizations, the Office of the President consolidates and cascades these inputs to the different sector heads, specifically, the Vice Presidents who then inform the heads of offices and units under their supervision. Said inputs, together with the University Vision and Mission, and the President’s Agenda, serve as references for each office in the crafting of MUST-DO Program. Each sector will then consolidate the Must-Do programs of the various units/offices under its jurisdiction to come up a unified Sector Plan. All Sector Plans are then taken into consideration by the IDP Committee to come up with a cohesive Institutional Development Plan for the University. This prepared IDP is endorsed and presented by the Executive Committee (EXECOM) to the University Board of Regents (BOR).

The university continuously and regularly conducts mid-year assessment and annual planning conference of each office, and each sector to assess if the objectives, programs, and projects indicated in the IDP are being met by the organizational unit.

The University is continuously implementing various measures to monitor and evaluate the program and projects of the university. The university has different units that monitor and evaluate the performance of each delivery units such as the Institutional Planning Office (IPO), Physical Planning and Development Office (PPDO), Campus Development Office (CDO), Research Management Office (RMO), Extension Management Office (EMO), Intellectual Property Management Office (IPMO), Institute for Science and Technology Research (ISTR), Institute for Culture and Language Studies (ICLS), Institute of Human and Social Development (IHSD), Institute for Gender and Development (I-GAD), and Human Resource Management Department (HRMD).

The Research Management Office (RMO), is the research arm of the OVPRED and hence, is in charge of providing support services to the VPRED on both administrative and technical matters. It has two centers which are Research Support Center and Research Monitoring and Evaluation Center

The Intellectual Property Management Office (IPMO) provides assistance to researchers to secure attractive returns in the long term from the bulk of valuable research outcomes and intellectual property. It also assists researchers in identifying possible partners within the academe, other businesses and investors to promote translation of research innovations into new products through advice and support for early stage research and development. The IPMO provides a portfolio of new technologies created through University research for licensing or collaborative development.

The Institute for Culture and Language Studies fosters research and/or research-based and workshop-led outputs and activities across divisional and disciplinary boundaries. The Institute promotes and engages with interpretative (or hermeneutic), historical, social and political researches as well as theoretical works in the Arts and allied disciplines.

The Institute for Gender and Development (I-GAD) is an office whose main objective is to pursue gender mainstreaming as a strategy to promote and uphold human rights in advocating gender equality and sensitivity in the academe, research, extension, policies, programs, and processes of the University, including its branches and campuses, in order to preserve the welfare of its clients/students and that of the Sintang Paaralan.

For the year 2012- 2020, the 8-point agenda of the university serves as the strategic plan which are:

For the year 2020-2024, the 10-point agenda of the university serves as the strategic plan which are: