Policy on the Admission of Senior High School Graduates to the Higher Education Institutions Effective Academic Year 2018-2019
CHED Memorandum Order No. 105-17, effective for the Academic Year 2018-2019, establishes the admission policy for Senior High School graduates into higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines. It allows all Grade 12 graduates, regardless of their track or strand, to be eligible for college admission and mandates that no student should be denied the opportunity to apply for college entrance examinations. Furthermore, current Grade 12 students who were previously barred from taking these examinations are now permitted to do so. Ultimately, HEIs retain the discretion to set their own admission requirements for enrolling graduates in their programs.
December 29, 2017
CHED MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 105-17
| SUBJECT | : | Policy on the Admission of Senior High School Graduates to the Higher Education Institutions Effective Academic Year 2018-2019 |
In accordance with the pertinent provisions of Republic Act No. 7722, otherwise known as the "Higher Education Act of 1994" and by virtue of Commission en banc Resolution No. 944-2017 dated December 18, 2017, for the purpose of providing guidance to higher education institutions in the admission of Senior High School graduates into the higher education programs effective Academic Year 2018-2019, the following policy is hereby adopted and promulgated by the Commission, thus:
1. All Grade 12 graduates beginning Academic Year 2017-2018 are eligible to enter college regardless of the track or strand taken in the Senior High School. SaCIDT
2. No Grade 12 student or graduate shall be denied acceptance in applying for college entrance examinations in the higher education institutions (HEIs).
3. Current Grade 12 students who were previously disallowed to take the college entrance examinations shall be given a chance by the HEIs to take the entrance examinations.
In the exercise of the HEI's academic freedom, the applicant Grade 12 graduates may enroll in any higher education program subject to the admission requirements of the admitting higher education institution.
This CMO shall take effect immediately.
Quezon City, Philippines, December 29, 2017.
For the Commission:
(SGD.) PATRICIA B. LICUANAN, Ph.D.Chairperson