CHED Scholarship Courses in Maritime Education, Multi and Interdisciplinary Cluster

Guide on CHED Scholarship Courses that Scholars May Enroll

CHED SCHOLARSHIP COURSES – Scholars of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) may take these courses under the fields of maritime education and multi and interdisciplinary cluster.

To graduate from college is a dream shared by many Filipinos. However, not everyone has enough finances to really finish their tertiary education. This is where the big role that scholarship benefactors come in. There are several scholarship programs that underprivileged but deserving students may turn to.

One of the public entities in the Philippines that has a scholarship program is the national governing body among the colleges and universities in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Its scholarship offer covers a wide range of courses across the different fields.

Among the CHED scholarship courses are those under the Maritime Education and the Multi and Interdisciplinary Cluster. Here are the CHED priority courses under these fields of studies:

Maritime Education

Maritime Engineering Marine Transportation

Multi and Interdisciplinary Cluster

Agribusiness
Agro-forestry
Data Science and Analytics
Disaster Risk Management/ Climate Change
Renewable / Sustainable Energy

Just like in other scholarship offers, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has a set of criteria for eligibility to its scholarship offer. The following are the basis:

a Filipino citizen
avail of only one government-funded financial assistance program.
Graduating high school student or high school graduate with a general average General Weighted Average (GWA)
For Half-SSP and Half-PESPA, GWA must be 93% but not more than 95%
For Full State Scholarship Program (FSSP) and Full Private Education Student Financial Assistance (FPESPA), GWA must be 96% or above.
parents/guardian have a combined annual gross income of 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.

With regards to the allowances for the scholars, the CHED has posted the stipends under the scholarship program. If you are interested to apply to be a scholar of CHED, there are requirements you need to submit for the CHED scholarship application.

CHED has also included several other courses in the coverage of its offer for scholars: