UST General Santos (GenSan) has released the table of fees for its five inaugural programs, as it expects to welcome more than 400 students when its first academic year commences on Aug. 9.
The list of fees is for the BS Accounting Information System, BS Entrepreneurship, BS Industrial Engineering, BS Medical Technology, and BS Pharmacy programs, which are existing programs in the Manila campus.
The cost of education at the Mindanao campus is lower because of lower tuition per unit and fewer miscellaneous items.
“As the newest HEI (higher education institution) in the city, UST (GenSan) offers an affordable and competitive tuition fee that guarantees high-quality standards in its program offerings,” UST GenSan said in a Facebook post.
Freshmen in UST GenSan’s entrepreneurship program must pay a total of P34,200 when paying in full. This covers 15 lecture units and costs for physical education (PE) classes and the National Service Training Program (NSTP) or Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
Tuition for the same program at UST Manila is more expensive, amounting to P56,894 for 18 lecture units and PE and NSTP or ROTC classes.
Accounting information systems students at the Mindanao campus must pay P37,980 for 18 units, nearly half of the P70,299 for 24 units to be paid by freshmen at the UST-Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy.
Tuition is set at P50,060 for medical technology freshmen in GenSan. This covers 18 lecture units and four laboratory units, as well as miscellaneous costs like laboratory fees.
With three more lecture units, the same program at UST Manila costs P84,723.
Pharmacy tuition is P45,780 at the Mindanao campus, significantly less than the P78,846 tuition at UST Manila, where students have two more lecture and laboratory units than those in GenSan.
Systems engineering students at the UST campus in the south must pay P43,700 for 15 lecture units and three laboratory units, while industrial engineering freshmen in Manila pay P68,089 for 16 lecture units and the same number of laboratory units.
Apart from lower rates for units, UST GenSan also has fewer miscellaneous fees.
Students at the branch campus are not yet required to pay alumni, athletic, and Varsitarian fees, nor fees for the central and local student councils, college journal, Commission on Elections, and learning materials.
UST GenSan will open its inaugural academic year on Aug. 9. Students have been advised to settle their fees by Aug. 8. Amador Denzel M. Teston
