The DOST-SEI has officially released the list of passers of September 2014 DOST Scholarship exam for academic year AY 2015-2016 on March 8, 2015.
The Department of Science and Technology revealed that a total of 5,303 high school students out of 42,987 secured a slot in the country’s premier science scholarship program.
The national qualifying examination for DOST-SEI’s two undergraduate scholarship programs, namely, the Republic Act 7687 or the Science and Technology Scholarship Act of 1994, and the Merit Scholarship Program were administered on Sunday, September 21, 2014 in 141 testing centers nationwide.
The new scholarship awardees must seek admission in any of the priority S&T fields of study at state colleges and universities and CHED-identified Centers of Excellence/Centers of Development.
2015-2016 DOST Scholarship Exam Results
See LIST OF PASSERS here.
This year’s qualifiers breached the 3,982 mark of last year’s passers, up by 33 percent, a record for the scholarship program established in 1958, the DOST said Sunday.
Out of the total number of passers, 4,475 qualified as scholars under the RA 7687 Scholarship Program, scholarships for gifted students who belong to economically disadvantaged families; while 828 passed under the DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship Program.
Municipalities and congressional districts covered by the DOST-SEI Scholarship Program has also increased from 1,443 last year to 1,568 this year with the inclusion of 125 municipalities having DOST scholars for the first time.
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