GMA News and iMoney have reported
that the University of the Philippines (UP) remained in the top 100 Asian
schools while Ateneo de Manila, University of Santo Tomas (UST) and De La Salle
stayed within the top 200 in the study released by education survey firm
Quacquarelli Symonds.
UP ranked 70th, Ateneo
114th, UST 143rd and DLSU 181 in Asia. The average annual
tuition and other fees for the four top Philippine universities were listed as
P50,000 for UP, P178,241 for Ateneo, P94,636 for UST and P113,000 for DLSU.
The only Philippine university in
the top 300 ranking in the world, UP brackets its students from A to E. Bracket
A students coming from well-to-do families pay full tuition, and bracket B to E
students (with E being from the poorest families) pay from P1,000, P600, P300
to PO per unit.
UP’s bracketing system, according to
the GMA and iMoney report, means that going to the top university in the
Philippines can also prove to be the cheapest due to its heavily
subsidized tuition.
Still, many UP students and their
families feel that the government can do much, much more in aiding the Iskos
and Iskas (Iskolars ng Bayan) of UP by way of providing them
further tuition subsidies and allowances, and in rehabilitating the state
university’s dilapidated buildings, facilities, laboratories and the like.
From time to time, protest rallies
erupt in many UP campuses around the country because many Bracket B and C
students feel that their families’ financial condition should have placed
them in Brackets D or E. As things stand, UP’s capability to place more
students in the lower brackets is tied down by what little funding it gets from
the national government.
In that problem UP is not alone
since most other state colleges and universities (SUCs) also have to
grovel for the little funding they manage to squeeze from the government. –END-
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