Foreign Admissions

Who may be considered as Foreign Students?

 

Foreign students are those belonging or owing allegiance to a country other than the Philippines and studying in any educational institution recognized or owned by the government of the Philippines (MECS Memo, No. 183, s. 1983). A student, having means sufficient for his education and support in the Philippines, who is at least eighteen years of age and who seeks to enter the Philippines temporarily and solely for the purpose of taking up a course of study higher than high school at a university, seminary, academy, college or school approved for such alien students by the Commissioner of Immigration (Section 9(f), Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, as amended).

 

Who may apply for Admissions?

 

A prospective foreign student-applicant for the tertiary or college level should be a graduate of high school or secondary school or its equivalent (CHED Guidebook for Foreign Students, 1995).

 

For Admission Procedure and Requirements, Click the Admission Procedure and Requirements Link.