Students who are planning to pursue higher education through masteral and doctoral degrees, the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) may be the answer to your goal.
DOST-SEI is offering scholarship programs for 1,640 new slots for MS and 765 new slots for PhD scholarships this year, Science Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña said in his recent DOST Report beamed through DOSTv on Facebook.
De la Peña said the DOST-SEI will be announcing in August the 12,000 incoming freshmen to the DOST-SEI Undergraduate Scholarship program, and about 2,000 scholarship qualifiers for the junior level science scholarship for students who are already in their third year college.
The DOST-SEI is likewise supporting 43,493 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) scholars nationwide.
Of these, 36,452 are at the undergraduate level, 4,603 are pursuing their Masters degree, and 2,438 are pursuing their PhD degrees.
For the Foreign Graduate Scholarship Programs, 218 MS and PhD scholars are studying in 25 countries. The scholars are taking up DOST priority courses in specialized fields where the country is not yet strong, or are not being offered yet in the Philippines.
The courses include space science and engineering, material science and nanotechnology, virology, data science and analytics, biomedical engineering, and courses in emerging technologies, among others.