Guide on CHED Scholarship Courses Related in Health Profession Education Field
CHED SCHOLARSHIP COURSES – Here are the Health Profession Education courses that you may take if you are a scholar of the Commission on Higher Education.
A lot of underprivileged but deserving Filipinos were able to take their families out of poverty by graduating from college with the help of a scholarship and securing a good-paying job. Many of them are health professionals.
However, truth be told that medicine courses are among the most expensive courses to take. Meanwhile, some of these courses are part of the CHED scholarship courses that scholars of the Commission may take.
To apply for the scholarship offer of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), you must be:
- a Filipino citizen
- Graduating high school student or high school graduate with a general average General Weighted Average (GWA)
- For Full State Scholarship Program (FSSP) and Full Private Education Student Financial Assistance (FPESPA), GWA must be 96% or above.
- For Half-SSP and Half-PESPA, GWA must be 93% but not more than 95%.
- Must have a combined annual gross income of parents/guardian which does not exceed Four Hundred Thousand Pesos (PhP 400,000), or in cases where the income exceeds PhP 400,000 an applicant must present written certification or medical findings of illness of a family member, or school certifications of two or more dependents enrolled in college;
- Avail of only one government-funded financial assistance program.
If you wish to take a course in medicine, there are specific CHED scholarship courses in the Health Profession Education field that the Commission has specified in its list of priority courses.
Here are the CHED scholarship courses prioritized under Health Profession Education:
- Doctor of Dental Medicine
- Doctor Of Optometry
- Medical Technology / Medical Laboratory Science
- Midwifery
- Nursing
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Physical Therapy
- Radiologic Technology
- Respiratory Therapy
- Speech Language Pathology
CHED has cited the scholarship stipends that scholars will receive. It includes the rates of allowance set based on certain factors.
For aspiring scholars, there are documentary requirements for the CHED scholarship application which you must prepare and submit to CHED. Make sure you monitor the application period.
