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According to this STFAP link there now five different brackets. If you fall under the top most bracket (A) then you automatically have to pay the full-cost tuition fee, full miscellaneous and laboratory fees depending on the campus you will enroll in. Looks like for UP Diliman it is P1,500 per unit instead of the P1,000 the administration has stated and even published in their January 2007 issue of UP Newsletter.
Were the figures just a mistake? I wonder why there are no violent reactions yet from the student body? Are everyone too busy with final exams and paper deadlines to notice? Hmmm…
How Much Are You Going To Pay?
Tuition Fee
The tuition fee per unit for the constituent university or campus is as follows:
| Bracket | Constituent University / Campus | |
|---|---|---|
| UP Diliman, UP Los Baños, UP Manila |
UP Baguio, UP Mindanao, UP San Fernando, UP Visayas |
|
| A | P1,500 | P1,000 |
| B | 1,000 | 600 |
| C | 600 | 400 |
| D | 300 | 200 |
| E | 0 | 0 |
April 17, 2007 at 6:38 pm
wooh! P1500?! it’s higher than FEU and UST..hehe..well students from bracket A can afford that…
December 2, 2008 at 9:06 pm
hi! I read through this blog entry and I’m hoping if you could explain further what “P1, 500 per unit” really means. I’m planning on transferring to UP Los Banos and am planning on supporting myself so I need to know exactly what the exact tuition fee is going to cost per semester.
Please contact me through ceres16smile@yahoo.com I would very much appreciate your help.
December 3, 2008 at 2:26 am
@Stef
Thanks for reading and commenting. Normally a subject is good for 3 units. There are subjects that are 4-5 units (those with lab or have more number of class hours) or even 2 units only. Now, minimum number of units you should be taking per semester is 15 units. This mean on tuition alone you pay 15*1500=22,500. Adding some miscellaneous fee, lab fees and student council fee let’s close the figure at 30k-35k per semester.
I hope I answered your question. Do feel free to make a follow-up if needed.
I salute you since it won’t be that easy to be self-supporting. Lot’s of luck to you then!
June 4, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Yeah I was shocked by this as well. I’m an old student returning for a second BS degree starting this sem (I’m also recording my experiences on my blog, estudyanteredux.wordpress.com). During my first degree (before all this tuition raise fiasco began) I paid 300 per unit. On the first increase I was aware that it became 900 per unit, but I didn’t realize that it had gone up to 1,500! It was a shocker, to say the least.
June 28, 2009 at 10:44 pm
whoa, that makes UP (for brackets A & B) more expensive than SLU.