Per Memorandum from the Office of the Chairperson, this Commission, dated March 2, 2021, received by this Office on March 26, 2021, the CHEDRO XI confirmed the applications to increase Tuition and Other School Fees (TOSF) of 7 private Higher Education Insitutions (HEIs) in Region XI for AY 2020-2021.

There is no public HEI that increased TOSF in compliance with Republic Act (RA) No. 10931, otherwise known as the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act of 2017, which provides “that within the period of not more than five (5) academic years from the effectivity of the Act … (c) all tuition and other fees charged by SUCs and LUCs shall not increase from the amounts used during the first semester of Academic Year 2017-2018, until such time that the system for the composite fee is implemented, or the five-year transition period has lapsed, whichever comes first”.