The University of Perpetual Help System DALTA is a co-educational and non-sectarian university. It offers courses in pre-school, elementary, secondary and the tertiary and graduate levels; as well as short vocational, technical and special courses. The University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (first named University of Perpetual Help Rizal) was established in 1975 by Dr. Antonio Laperal Tamayo, his wife Dr. Daisy Moran Tamayo, together with their friend Ernesto Palanca Crisóstomo. Dr. Tamayo anchored the University on the creed Character Building is Nation Building. Stressing this belief, he said our young can only be assured of a better tomorrow by building the right kind of character today - respectful, hardworking and committed to the formation of a prosperous and a wealthy nation. This development, however, will need a requisite Christian character, that will build a nation. The first school building consisting of four floors (the present hospital) was constructed in a remarkable record-breaking period of only four months, which ordinarily takes one year to construct. Perpetual was indeed on its way to becoming a premier university south of Metro Manila.