You may find our Admissions FAQs helpful if you have questions. If you do not find the answer to your question in the Admissions FAQs, you may email the Office of Graduate Studies at statgradadmissions.upd@up.edu.ph. Please give us three days to respond to your inquiry.
IMPORTANT DATES
Opening of Application Period
February 18, 2025 (Tuesday)
Deadline for the Submission of Requirements
March 20, 2025 (Thursday)
Announcement of Initial Results for MOS, MS, PhD Stat and PhD Data Science-Regular and Research Tracks
April 11-12, 2025 (Friday-Saturday)
Validation Exam
May 3, 2025 (Saturday)
1st batch - 9:00am - 12:00nn
2nd batch - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
*Note that the validation exam will be held in-person at the UP School of Statistics, Diliman
*All PMDSA and PhD Data Science-Straight PhD applicants are required to take the validation exam
Announcement of Final Results
May 14-15, 2025 (Wednesday-Thursday)
Midyear Registration for Bridge Classes
June 16-17, 2025 (Thursday)
*Those who will need to take the bridging program during Midyear 2025 need to process admission at UPSS as non-degree as early as May 15.
First Day of Midyear Bridge Classes
June 19, 2025 (Thursday)
*For those who need to take the bridging program
Qualifying Exam for PhD Statistics-Regular PhD (with MS degree other than MS Statistics)
June 19, 2025 (Thursday)
Requirements:
Accomplished application form
Three (3) recommendations using the specified form. At least one should be from your former or current employer/immediate superior, if applicable. The rest must be from former professors or professional contacts.
Official Transcript of Records (TOR)
PSA Birth Certificate
PSA Marriage Certificate (for married women)
TOEFL score report (for foreign applicants whose medium of instruction in the schools they attended is not English)
Notes for fresh graduates:
You may submit a copy of your TCG instead of your TOR in case your TOR is not yet available.
Notes for foreign applicants:
Submission of TOEFL or IELTS is not needed if the medium of instruction in the last school attended is English.
A copy of your passport will suffice in lieu of PSA Birth Certificate.
All documents should be submitted in electronic form ONLY. Original hard copies will be required after you are admitted into the program.
You may download a copy of the forms here: Application and Recommendation Forms
For submission of applications: Submission of Applications
For information on the validation exam: Validation Exam
For information on the PhD Statistics qualifying exam: Candidacy and Qualifying Exams
Kindly note the following:
We will only be accepting this (one) batch of applications for the AY 2025-26 intake.
The following may send their applications to the until June 16, 2025 (Monday).
Applications from recent graduates of the BS Statistics program of any UP Constituent Unit (year of graduation must within 2022-2025) for the MoS and MS Statistics programs only.
Applications from graduates of the MS Statistics program of the School of Statistics for the PhD Statistics program.
Applications from graduates of any master's program of the UP School of Statistics for the PhD DS program.