Visayas State University is a premier university in the Philippines located in Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines. The university is considered the most beautiful educational campus in the Philippines. The institution was established on June 2, 1924, as the Baybay Agricultural School or the (BAS) through a Provincial Board. Through the years, the university was renamed multiple times but on April 27, 2007, the university was officially renamed Visayas State University by the virtue of RA No. 9437.
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The university also opens its door to a scholarship program that provides financial assistance to deserving students who wish to finish a degree. The institution’s goal is to produce highly competent and world-class manpower in science and technology. VSU provide quality service to students by engaging them in an active learning environment centered on their success.
What is Visayas State University?
From its inception, Visayas State University strives to meet its objectives. With this, the university aligned its teachings and ideals with its core values, namely, the values of relevance, integrity, truth, and excellence which serve as their foundation and guide for their instruction, research, extension, and production.
Aside from that, the university is committed to producing highly competent professionals in the field of science and technology, to generate and teach students with relevant knowledge leading to improved productivity, sustainability, and profitability, as well as to meet the needs of the industry and the community. Hence, because of this, they become one of the recognized institutions that were identified by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as the Center of Excellence in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, and Forestry (2000) and Zonal Research Center in Region 8 (2000-2003).
Visayas State University also offers various academic scholarships, non-academic scholarships, and graduate school for foreign students scholarship programs. These programs aim to help students who wish to pursue their studies but needed some financial support. Hence, discounts on tuition fees, stipends, and book allowances are provided to students who have reached an excellent grade point average and/ or passed the screening of their assigned department.
List of Scholarship Programs at Visayas State University
1. Academic Scholarship
Academic scholarship is a program offered by Visayas State University to help academically excellent students. In this program, tuition fees are covered including book allowances providing that the student must have excellent grade point averages and/ or passed a required screening. Furthermore, there are various types of academic scholarships offered by VSU. To know more about it kindly read the following information provided below.
- ACES (Advance Credit for Exceptional Students)
This scholarship program is offered to students who garnered a high school average of 85%. The applicant must have passed five (5) subjects or 15 units of the ACES exam. The grantee of this scholarship program will receive free tuition, an eight hundred pesos stipend, and a book allowance worth 200 pesos.
Note: The grantee must maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 1.450 for renewal of the scholarship.
- University Scholarship
University scholarship is being offered to students with a grade point average of 1:000-1.450. The applicant must have a regular load during the previous semester as prescribed in the curriculum. The grantee will receive free tuition and a stipend worth one hundred pesos with no book allowance included.
- College Scholarship
This program is being offered to students with a grade point average of 1.451- 1.750 and must not have had a load during the previous semester. The grantee will receive free tuition and a seven hundred stipend with no book allowance included.
- Honorific Scholarship
This scholarship is intended for incoming college students of the University. This program is only for those incoming first-year college students who were high school valedictorians or salutatorians of their batch. Before the application for the program, the applicant must not have taken any college units. The guarantee will receive free tuition and a 150 pesos stipend with no book allowance included.
- Entrance Scholarship (Full)
An entrance scholarship is being offered to incoming first-year college students who have a high school average of 85%. To avail of the scholarship the student must pass the Entrance Examination and must be landed in the top 10 passers of the entrance scholarship exam. The grantee will receive free tuition and a 100 pesos stipend with no book allowance included.
- Entrance Scholarship (Partial)
Another scholarship program offered by Visayas State University is the partial entrance scholarship. It is being offered to students who belong to the next 30 passers of the Entrance Scholarship Exam. The applicant must have a high school average of 85%. If selected, the grantee will receive free tuition and a 700 pesos stipend with no book allowance included.
- BSAE-FAP (BS in Agricultural Engineering Financial Assistance Program.
This scholarship is being offered to incoming first-year students of BSAE-FAP (BS Agricultural Engineering). The applicant must have a high school average of 85% and must pass the screening of the Department Scholarship Committee the grantee will receive free tuition including dormitory fees but will not be able to avail of any stipend and book allowances.
Note: The student must pass all subjects enrolled for the renewal of the scholarship.
- BSF-FAP (BS in Forestry Financial Assistance Program)
Another scholarship offered by Visayas State University is the BSF-FAP Financial Assistance Program intended for incoming first-year college students of BS in Forestry. The student must have a high school average of 85% and must pass the screening of the Department Scholarship Committee. The grantee of the said scholarship program will receive free tuition including dormitory fees.
Note: To renew the scholarship, the student must pass all the subjects enrolled in the previous semester.
- KCA-FAP (College of Agriculture Financial Assistance Program)
This scholarship program is being offered to students who wish to enroll in the College of Agriculture at the university. To be a grantee of the scholarship the student must have a high school average of 85% and must pass the screening of the College of Agriculture Scholarship Committee. The successful applicant will receive free tuition including dormitory fees but won’t avail of any stipend or book allowance.
2. Non-Academic Financial Privileges
This scholarship program offers financial assistance to students who are members of varsity teams, dance troupes, and choral ensembles. This is to assist students who bring pride and honor to the University by actively participating in the organization.
3. Graduate School for Foreign Student Scholarship
This scholarship program aims to give financial assistance to deserving graduate students to pursue graduate study but importantly to further professional and academic development. It is one of the strategies to attract foreign graduate students to pursue their studies at the university.
- Visayas State University Graduate Teaching Assistantship Grant to Foreign Graduate Students
The graduate school of Visayas State University has been giving financial assistance to local graduates since 1991 through Graduate Teaching Research Assistantship Program. This program aims to boost further professional academic development towards foreign graduate school students. Foreign graduate teaching assistants are expected to support departmental instructional activities which include teaching classes as teachers of record; grading course assignments, holding office hours, mentoring, proctoring examinations, and other professional activities. The grantee will receive free school fees including tuition, laboratory, and miscellaneous fee, a stipend of 25,000 pesos per month, book allowance, medical insurance, transportation subsidy, and thesis/dissertation support.
- Graduate Fellowship Program for Foreign Graduate Students
The program opened ten (10) slots for foreign graduate students, 5 Slots for Ph.D., and 5 slots for the master program. The grantee will receive free school fees, a stipend worth $400 per semester, and thesis/dissertation support of $1000 for masters and $2000 for doctoral. This program encourages students to participate in the internalization program of the University.
- Scholarship Program for Honor Undergraduate of Visayas State University
This scholarship program is only for the top 10 graduates with Latin Honors. The grantee will receive free school fees and a stipend worth 200,000 pesos per month in thesis support of 50,000 pesos per month.
Video: Scholarship or Assistantship Offered at Visayas State University for Master’s Degree
Check out this video that was presented by two graduate school students of the said University which will help you to further understand and explore the various scholarships, grants, and assistance being offered by the University for their graduate school students. They also further discussed in the video the process or steps and requirements that an applicant must follow and provide upon and after applying for the said scholarship program.
Summary
This is the list of all the scholarship programs, grants, and financial assistance a student of VSU may avail of. This includes a brief discussion about the qualifications and privileges that students can avail of once they become grantees of the scholarship program they applied for.
Meanwhile, if you have further concerns on how to apply for a scholarship at VSU, you may contact them thru their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/visayasstateu/?mibextid=ZbWKw or write to them at information@vsu.edu.ph. Alternatively, you can visit their official website at https://www.vsu.edu.ph/.