They do this so that unscrupulous people don't modify their records... It gets sent in sealed envelope directly to the educational facility you are transferring to or employer etc. Whoever asked for it! For what it's worth. They do the same thing in USA if you transfer schools. Hope this helps!

The rest is just the way they do it here in the PI.

 

The ex has a kid going to Silliman. I think it's more expensive than the other schools. I think roughly $200 / month for the school year. Elementary for the other schools, which might be the same as the college costs for these schools, is around $800 per year.

Computer Engineering? You really want to give yourself that much work? What's your math background? Generally this is a math-heavy major. And the pre-reqs are setup so that you don't have a lot of wiggle room compared to other majors. There is a web of requirements on both math and computer science.

Why not learn something useful, like cooking?

I would just walk around campus and follow the hottest chicks to see what classes they are taking. Whatever major has the most of those classes is what I would take.

 

Remember you're in the PI and you only get the right answer IF you ask the right question! Don't expect a detailed explanation either as it is not forthcoming... Life in the PI

 

Our #1 son fininshed the 5-year Computer Engineering degree at Silliman last sem and is now taking the Master of Engineering course, he's now 20 yo. #2 son is 4th year of the same course and is 18.

Son #1 blazed through the undergraduate degree but #2 had to retake a couple of tough math courses and now is having problems scheduling prerequisite courses, next sem 3 courses he needs are all scheduled at the same hour. Many fellow students are taking 6-7 years to complete that degree.

In hindsight our younger guy probably should have gone with the Computer Science degree, only 4 years and most of the same programming courses. Here you must go 5 years to be called an Engineer with much designing and burning circuit boards and heavy math.

 

That's one of the challenges of these sorts of majors. They have a tangled web of pre-reqs. Many of the classes have pre-reqs in both math and courses related to the major. The speed in which you get through the major depends on your ability to knock out these classes. If a class is full or you fail a class then you can add a semester or more as opposed to just cramming it in somewhere else.

This generally isn't a holiday major. You have to do real work.

 

I am curious as to what the difference is between Computer Engineering and Computer Science?

My Filipina wife has a 4 year BS degree in Computer Science from AMA in Bacolod City.
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The one thing I can say is that when she was going to continue her education in Florida, they had her college transcripts from AMA sent to an organization in Miami (Josef Silny & Associates) in order to find out if all her credits she received from AMA would transfer to any accredited university in the US ... Suprisingly, her credit evaluation came back from Josef Silny as equal to the same degree from an accredited university in the US .... So, she lost no credit from previously taken subjects from AMA in the Philippines when transferring to the US.

Moral of this story .... Make sure that whatever school / degree you are taking in the Philippines does in fact equal to the same thing as in the US.

I was worried that when her 4 year BS degree in Computer Science was evaluated in the US, that it would come back as equal to maybe a 2 year Associates degree ... but it was evaluated as if she had earned the same 4 year degree in the US.
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Same problem happens with registered nurses who received there education in the Philippines ... If these nurses did not graduate from an "Accredited" nursing school in the Philippines, the state Board of Nursing won't allow them to take the test that allows them to be licensed in whatever state they want to work in the US ... And if the Board of Nursing in the US won't alow the nurse to take the exams, she / he can never work as an RN in the US.

 

Wrye, good luck with your program. I went to college in the Philippines in the 1980's on the GI bill. One thing regarding the 4 year vs 5 year stipend. I know the post 9-11 program is vastly different from the Vietnam-era GI bill I had, but back then, benefits were only paid when actually attending school - not during summer vacation. So back then at least, the 48 months of benefits could stretch out to almost 5 academic years if you had a summer break each year (at that time I think we were off from end of March-beginning of June). I also noticed on the VA Weams website that your program is already accredited which is good.