Guide on CHED Scholarship Courses Related to Social Science
CHED SCHOLARSHIP COURSES – You can check the list below for the Social Science courses covered under the scholarship program.
Students who are underprivileged but are determined to finish their tertiary education may turn to scholarship offers for financial assistance. There are public and private benefactors that are willing to finance the college education of deserving students.
In the Philippines, one of the state entities that offer scholarships is the Commission on Higher Education or more popularly called CHED. It has prioritized courses in different fields including courses under Social Science.
For CHED scholars who want to take a Social Science course, here are the courses that you can choose from:
Social Science
- Community Development
- Human Services (Guidance and Counselling)
- Indigenous Peoples Studies/ Education
- Peace Studies/ Education
- Psychology
- Social Work
Aside from the courses in Social Science, there are also CHED scholarship courses under the IT or Information Technology field, CHED scholarship courses under the Engineering field, and the CHED scholarship courses under the Science and Mathematics field that scholars may take.
.CHED also crafted the stipends that scholars may get under the scholarship program. It has helped countless students graduate from their courses.
CHED has crafted a set of eligibility criteria in the application for the scholarship offer. For aspiring scholars, 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.
There are requirements for CHED scholarship application that you must prepare and submit to the Commission.
