Incoming UP freshmen from Munti to receive scholarship grant

Mayor Jaime Fresnedi announced the P25,000 financial assistance for Muntinlupa graduates as incoming University of the Philippines freshmen and other selected university enrollees on priority courses, Monday morning.

Fresnedi said that the City Council drafted Ordinance 15-099 allotting monetary aid to high school graduates enrolling in UP and other colleges as the City Government’s support in its constituents’ continued education.

“The scholarship grant thrust to aid underprivileged yet deserving Muntinlupeño families send their university learners for a tertiary schooling. This is part of our educational reform to produce equipped citizens to improve personal way of living and who can in turn help in the synergy of developing our city,” Fresnedi added.

Muntinlupa Scholarship Program director Karla Vasquez-Gabriel said 100 applicants from UP Luzon Campuses and those enrolling in universities under chosen CHED centers of excellence in the National Capital Region and DOST-SEI Priority Course and Schools for the School Year 2015-2016 will be accepted.

CHED Centers of Excellence in NCR include: Asia Pacific College (Information Technology), Ateneo de Manila University (Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Education, I.T, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics), Centro Escolar University (Teacher Education), De la Salle University-Manila (I.T., Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Teacher Education), Philippine Normal University (Teacher Education), University of Santo Tomas (Nursing, Biology, Chemistry, Teacher Education), and University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center (Nursing).

DOST-SEI Priority Courses and Schools include: Adamson University (ChE, IE, CoE, EE, CerE, ME, ECE), ADMU (EnviSci, CS, ECE, CoE), DLSU-Manila (ME, ChE, ECE, IE, EE, MfgE, CS), Don Bosco Technical College (ME, ECE, CoE), Mapua Institute of Technology (ChE, EE, IE, MetE, ECE, MiningE), Rizal Technological University (EE), Technological University of the Philippines-Manila (ME, ECE, EE), University of the East (ME), and UST (EE, IE, ChE, EE, BioChem, ME).

Beneficiaries will receive a maximum of P25,000 financial assistance every semester upon completion of requirements. The program require scholars to maintain a 2.0 general weighted average (or the equivalent) and should not transfer to other campus or shift in other course.

The scholarship for UP and priority courses on universities is in top of a wide range educational program of the local government.

MSP also caters to Ten Muntinlupa Outstanding Students and high school honor graduates that will receive P30,000 and P25,000, respectively per semester on their choice of tertiary school, financial aid to Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa’s Iskolar ng Bayan, public high school and elementary students among others.

Mayor Jaime Fresnedi holds education as prime importance to his eight-point program which hopes to deliver development for all.

For more information, visit Muntinlupa Scholarship Program office located at 2/F Muntinlupa City Hall Annex Building, Putatan, Muntinlupa with tel no. 831-5971 or visit their Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/muntinlupascholarshipprogram.