Tuition Fee Privileges

Tuition Fee Privileges for UP Employees

As an employee of UP, you may avail yourself of the privilege to study in the University. Administrative employees and REPS may enroll in not more than 6 units per term/ semester with free tuition and exemption from all miscellaneous and laboratory fees except student fund fees. Faculty members are allowed to enjoy the same privilege fro a maximum of 9 units per semester. Administrative employees may enroll after office hours.

Children and non-earning spouses of full-time employees who have served the University for at least 5 years are entitled to free tuition including miscellaneous and laboratory fees except student fund fees. They continue to enjoy this privilege as long as they pass at least 75% of the total units enrolled in on the last day of the late registration of the previous semester attended.

The non-earning dependents of UP personnel,who retire upon reaching the compulsory retirement age or retire due to permanent disability or death, shall be entitled to the tuition and miscellaneous fees privileges they were entitled prior to the retirement. This shall continue until the non-earning dependent is able to finish the degree/ program he or she was enrolled in at the time of the retirement of the UP personnel or until the non-earning dependent is able to finish his or her first undergraduate degree without exceeding the maximum residency rule. If any non-earning dependent is not enrolled in UP at the time of retirement, death or disability of the employee, then the dependent shall be entitled to the privileges until he or she is able to finish his or her first undergraduate UP degree provided, however, that the dependent earns admission into the University. The same academic rules imposed on dependents of UP personnel in active service shall apply to dependents of UP retirees.

Note that his privilege applies only to dependents of personnel in actual service to the University and does not apply when personnel are on leave without UP pay except when the UP personnel is on official approved leave from the University by way of secondment to another government agency, secondment outside the country on an academic assignment, or sick leave with or without pay.

The children of UP personnel who are returning to the University after a study leave, special detail or assignment are allowed to enroll at the UP Integrated School (UPIS) with tuition fee privileges provided that the study leave, special detail or assignment of the employee was the reason for the children's failure to be enrolled at the UPIS.

source: Handbook on Benefits and Privileges of UP Faculty and Staff, 1993