UniFAST Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) AY 2024-2025

It is with our utter delight to inform all students out there about the opening of UniFAST Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) for the academic year 2024-2025. If you are looking for a program to help you pay for your college, then this program must be the one your are searching for.

This program will provide you a financial assistance to cover your tuition and other school fees. But in order to be eligible for this program, you must need to meet specific requirements, and that's what we are about to detail in this article.

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What is Tertiary Education Subsidy?

The Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) is simply a grant-in-aid program that aims to provide a partial or full cost of deserving and priority students for their tertiary education.

Specifically, TES can be availed by students studying in state universities and colleges (SUCs), CHED-recognized local universities and colleges (LUCs), and private higher education institutions (HEIs).

Take note however that TES is not a scholarship and it is not just based on merit but rather set out by the prioritization system of UniFAST Board, conforming the RA 10931.

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Eligibility Requirements 

Applicants for TES will only be eligible if they possess the following criteria:

• Filipino citizen;
• no previous undergraduate degree;
• enrolled in SUCS, CHED-recognized LUCS and Private HEls, and in programs included in the CHED Registry; and
• not overstaying in the program (i.e., 4 or 5 years + 1-year grace period).

Priority will be given to the following circumstances:

• students under the most updated Listahanan for all SUCS, LUCS, Private HEls, including PNSLs;
• students included in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), ranked according to household per capita income for all SUCS, LUCs, Private HEls, including PNSLs; and
• the remaining slots are to be allocated to other poor students in Private HEls with no SUC/LUC or PNSL, not included in the 1st and 2nd prioritization categories.

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Ineligible to Apply for TES

You are not allowed to apply for TES if you are the following:

• foreign student;
• non-student;
• student enrolled in HEls or programs not included in the CHED Registry of Programs and Institutions;
  Students in second undergraduate post-secondary program;
• student beneficiary of the Tulong Dunong Program (TDP), CHED Scholarship Programs (CSPs), or other national government-funded StuFAPs, except those recipients of any one-time grant or subsidy such as but not limited to DSWD'S Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program; and
• student who submitted falsified documents.

TES Benefits:

The financial assistance will be allotted as detailed below:

• For students enrolled in SUCs and CHED-recognized LUCs: Php20,000 per academic year or Php10,000 per semester.
• For students enrolled in private HEIs: Php27,000 per academic year or Php13,500 per semester.
• Allocation: Tuition, school fees, and other-related expenses.

Additional Benefits:

TES 3A:

For persons with disability (PWDs): Php10,000 per academic year, Php5,000 per semester.

TES 3B:

Board licensure examination: Php8,000 maximum (one-time reimbursement).

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Application Timeline:

Below is the application schedule that is set out by UniFAST, please be guided accordingly:

I-Ilocos Region and II- Cagayan Valley- November 26-28, 2024

III-Central Luzon and MIMAROPA- November 29 and December 2-3, 2024

CALABARZON- December 4-6, 2024

V-Bicol Region and Caraga- December 9-11, 2024

VI-Western Visayas and VIII- Eastern Visayas- December 12-13 and 16, 2024

VII- Central Visayas and NCR- December 17-19, 2024

X-Northern Mindanao and XI- Davao Region- December 20, 23 and 26, 2024

IX-Zamboanga Peninsula and BARMM A- December 27, 2024 and January 2-3, 2025

XII-Soccsksargen and BARMM B- January 6-8, 2025

Cordillera Administrative Region
Schedule- January 9-10 and 13, 2025

Filing of Application

If you possess the qualifications mentioned above, you may now visit the official website of UniFAST to know more about TES and how you will be able to file your application via this link.

Source: UniFAST 

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