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Written by Webmaster
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
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School education and vocational training traditionally have a very high status in the Philippines. This is evidenced by, among other things, the exceptionally high literacy rate and the large number of private schools and universities. The Philippines is the third largest English-speaking country in the world, as practically the entire population is bilingual. The education system follows the US example.
Knowledge of languages
Literacy rate
| 95.1% | The Philippines has one of the lowest rates of illiteracy in the entire world
| English
| 93.5%
| (second official language alongside Filipino)
| Spanish
| 0.6%
| (third official language until 1987)
| German
| N. N.
| (Language courses are offered by the Goethe-Institut in Manila)
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Education system
• Elementary education 6 years = compulsory schooling
• Secondary education 4 years
• Higher education 4 years (or longer, e.g. for engineering, law, medicine)
Numbers of students per type of university
Total 2,420,856
- of which at state universities 829,181
- of which at private universities 1,591,675
- Graduates per annum approx. 400,000
Percentage of students per discipline
Business administration
| 23.0% | Educational sciences
| 16.7% | Engineering
| 14.6% | Human medicine
| 13.2% | Mathematics / computing
| 10.8% | | Agricultural sciences / veterinary medicine | 3.2% | Social sciences
| 3.1% | Media sciences
| 1.2% | Humanities
| 1.2% | Natural sciences
| 1.1% | Architecture
| 0.9% | Law
| 0.8% | Other disciplines
| 10.2%
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 November 2006 )
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The Philippines 
