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Scholarships

To promote academic excellence and assist financially-deserving students, Olivarez College awards full or partial scholarship grants subject to specific terms and conditions.

An applicant  may avail only one (1) type of scholarship at a time. Applications for scholarships are filed at the Scholarship Office and are evaluated by the Scholarship Committee. The Vice President for Academics and Services shall approve all favorable applications classified and endorsed by the Scholarship Committee.

Types of Scholarship

Alumni Privilege

The Olivarez College Alumni Association, in cooperation with Olivarez College, awards 30% tuition fee discount to all graduates of Olivarez College and their children from Grade School to Graduate School programs who would like to pursue their studies in Olivarez College.

Academic Scholarship

Scholars in the President’s List are students who incur a GPA of 1.25, with no grade lower than 1.75 in the previous semester, and with a regular load of at least eighteen (18) academic units. Meanwhile, the Dean’s List is composed of students who incur a GPA of 1.50, with no grade lower than 2.00 in the previous semester, and with a regular load of at least eighteen (18) units.

Edukasyong Libre ni Olivarez (ELO) Foundation Scholarships 

Qualified ELO scholars are entitled to free tuition fees for one school year in basic education level and one semester in college level. Two (2) ELO scholars will be chosen from Barangay Baclaran, San Dionisio, and San Isidro, while one (1) each in the remaining barangays  of Don Galo, La Huerta, Santo Nino, Tambo, and Vitalez.

Aside from satisfactory compliance of the performance evaluation, grant for ELO scholars enrolled in the Integrated Basic Education Department (IBED) is non-transferable and renewable on a yearly basis provided that the scholar earns a GWA of 90% and no grade lower than 85% in any subject.

In college, the ELO scholars may renew their privileges provided that they:

  1. Satisfactorily pass the performance evaluation and attendance;
  2. Earn the grade requirement:
    • Accountancy: 1.75 (89-91%) GWA and no grade lower than 2.00 (86-88%) in any subject
    • Board course: 2.00 (86-88%) GWA and no grade lower than 2.00 (86-88%) in any subject
    • Non-board course: 2.00 (86-88%) GWA and no grade lower than 2.25 *83-85%) in any subject
  3. Render a total of two hundred fifty (250) hours of duty work in assigned office; and
  4. Attend all regular and special meetings and group activities.

All graduating ELO scholars must shoulder their Practicum equivalent units.

Entrance Scholarship 

All incoming regular college students who meet the following criteria are eligible for one (1)-semester scholarship:

  1. Full scholarship (100% free tuition) for students who graduate valedictorian from a duly-recognized school with a graduating class of at least fifty (50) students
  2. Half scholarship (50% free tuition) for students who graduated salutatorian from a duly-recognized school with a graduating class of at least fifty (50) students.

To maintain such scholarship for the second semester, the grantee must meet the required general point average (GPA) of 1.25 and 1.50 for full and half scholarships, respectively, with no grade lower than 2.00 in all academic subjects and must demonstrate exemplary behavior.

Outreach Scholarship Program

The Outreach Scholarship Program (OSP) is designed to provide educational opportunity to the less privileged but qualified and deserving kindergarten students of the City of Parañaque, Philippines. In OSP, the recipient pays five hundred pesos (P500.00) only per academic year. Grant is non-transferable once awarded and renewable upon satisfactory academic performance and attendance.

Student Assistant Scholarship 

The Student Assistant (SA) Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to intellectually gifted but less privileged students and are willing to render clerical work in a designated office in the College. Students accommodated in this program must submit the following documentary requirements and pass the qualifying examination and typing examination:

  1. Filled-up application form;
  2. Income tax returns of parents;
  3. Recommendation letter

Aside from satisfactory performance evaluation and attendance, the SA should also meet the following requirements to maintain his/her scholarship:

  1. Render duty work for thirty-five (35) hours per week and upon the needs of the College during regular semester;
  2. During summer term, not take any academic load and render forty-eight (48) hours in six (6) working days;
  3. General weighted average (GWA) of 2.00 (86-88%) and no grade lower than 2.50 (80-82%) in any subject;
  4. Attend all regular and special meetings and group activities; and
  5. Maintain a good moral character.

In return of their service to the College, SAs enjoy the following benefits:

  1. Free tuition fee equivalent to twenty-one (21) units;
  2. Monthly allowance; and
  3. Office and clerical work experience.

All graduating SA scholars must enroll as a regular student upon reaching their last semester to give way for Practicum.

Undergraduate Scholarship

Undergraduate scholarship may be granted to a student who obtained the required GPA listed in the previous semester and carries a regular load of 18-21 academic  units:

(a) Full tuition fee waiver for students with a GPA of 1.25 and no grade lower than 1.75
(b) Half tuition fee waiver for students with a GPA of 1.50 and no grade lower than 2.00

Other Scholarships and Grants

Aside from the abovementioned scholarship, the College also grants aid scholarships to:

(a) Poor but deserving students at the ratio of one free tuition scholarship for every five hundred (500) students enrolled and renewed every school term;
(b) PD 577 Scholarship is awarded to freshmen applicants who are children of military personnel who died or have been incapacitated in the line of duty as prescribed in Presidential Decree No. 577.


Contact Information
SCHOLARSHIP OFFICE
Head: Ms. Mary Rose P. Vidallon, MBA
Ground Floor, Pablo R. Olivarez Hall, Olivarez College
Dr. Arcadio Santos Avenue, San Dionisio, Parañaque City, Philippines
(632) 8260750 local 119