The National Institute of Physics (NIP) was established in 1983 by Presidential Executive Order No.

In 1997,[2] the NIP has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the Commission on Higher Education.

[4] The institute's faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are actively engaged in research in the following areas: Condensed Matter, Instrumentation Physics, Photonics, Structure and Dynamics, Theoretical Physics.

[5] In February 2014, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) donated computer equipment to NIP to improve their theoretical high-energy physics research capabilities.

[7] In the same month, the NIP became an associate member of CERN's ATLAS experiment under the South African cluster.