TL;DR — BIT International College's Tagbilaran campus publishes 25 programs across six colleges and a graduate school, including a law school and a full maritime line. Fourteen of the undergraduate programs end at a PRC licensure exam. The scholarship page is the most concrete thing on the site: top-twenty senior high graduates get 100 percent free tuition in any course at any campus, and everyone else is offered 40 percent off. Base tuition itself is not published.
BIT International College was founded in 1981 by Atty. Dionisio Balite and Dr. Lilia Balite as the Bohol Institute of Technology, and has grown into a six-campus network across Bohol and Siquijor. It is private, non-sectarian and co-educational. Contacts and basics are on our BIT International College listing, with the rest of the city on our Tagbilaran schools page.
One administrative note before the catalogue: the school's own site gives the Tagbilaran address as 200 Gallares Street, while our directory record has Palma Street. Confirm the campus address when you call — a network this size moves offices.
The Tagbilaran catalogue
College of Legal and Business Education
- Juris Doctor
- BS Criminology
- BS Accountancy
- BS Business Administration, major in Management
- BS Business Administration, major in Financial Management
A law school in a provincial college is not common, and it changes what the institution is. It also explains the graduate-level scholarship terms below.
College of Arts and Sciences
- Bachelor of Arts (AB)
- BS Marine Transportation
- BS Marine Engineering
- BS Hospitality Management
Maritime sitting under Arts and Sciences rather than in its own college is a structural quirk; the programs themselves are the standard deck and engine degrees.
College of Education
- Bachelor of Elementary Education
- Bachelor of Secondary Education
The department also administers the school's High School and Elementary Grades.
College of Technology
- BS Electronics and Communication Engineering
- BS Computer Engineering
- BS Civil Engineering
- BS Mechanical Engineering
- BS Electrical Engineering
- BS Computer Science
- BS Information Technology
- BS Industrial Technology, major in Electronics, Electrical and Automotive Technology
Five engineering degrees plus two computing degrees is a wide technology offering for a college outside a major metro, and it reflects the institution's origins as the Bohol Institute of Technology.
College of Paramedics
- BS Physical Therapy
- BS Nursing
- BS Radiologic Technology
Graduate School
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Master of Arts in Education
- Master of Arts in Teaching Computer Science
- Master of Public Administration
- Master of Business Administration
Which programs end at a licensure exam
This is the single most useful cut through a catalogue this wide.
| Program | Exam at the end |
|---|---|
| Juris Doctor | Philippine Bar Examination |
| BS Accountancy | CPA Licensure Examination |
| BS Criminology | Criminologist Licensure Examination |
| Bachelor of Elementary Education | LET |
| Bachelor of Secondary Education | LET |
| BS Civil Engineering | Civil Engineer licensure |
| BS Electrical Engineering | Registered Electrical Engineer |
| BS Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineer licensure |
| BS Electronics and Communication Engineering | Electronics Engineer licensure |
| BS Marine Transportation | Marine Deck Officer licensure |
| BS Marine Engineering | Marine Engineer Officer licensure |
| BS Nursing | Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination |
| BS Physical Therapy | Physical Therapist licensure |
| BS Radiologic Technology | Radiologic Technologist licensure |
| BS Computer Engineering | None |
| BS Computer Science | None |
| BS Information Technology | None |
| BS Industrial Technology | None |
| BS Hospitality Management | None |
| Bachelor of Arts | None |
| BSBA (Management / Financial Management) | None |
Fourteen licensed undergraduate programs is a heavy load for one institution, and it is the right thing to interrogate. The school does not publish passing rates for any of them. Ask each dean, per program and per year, and read the answers against the national picture in our board exam passing rates by course guide. If accountancy is the target, our BS Accountancy guide explains how the program length and the CPALE interact.
Maritime has its own entry gate
BSMT and BSMarE applicants at BIT carry a medical and sensory battery that no other program requires, and it is published in detail:
- Urinalysis, stool examination, complete blood count and chest X-ray at Englewood Hospital
- Psychological test with a named provider in the Mansasa District, Tagbilaran City
- Ishihara colour vision test and hearing examination at Jesha Optical, fronting Metro Centre Hotel
The medical certificate is only issued after all of those are submitted, which makes it a sequence rather than a checklist. Colour vision in particular is a hard gate in maritime — it is not something you can appeal or study for. Get the Ishihara test done first, before you spend money on anything else, if there is any doubt.
If maritime is your direction, read our maritime courses guide on the sea-service and certification requirements that follow the degree; the shipboard training stage is where maritime careers usually stall, not the classroom.
The rest of the entry requirements
Incoming college freshmen
- Original high school card
- PSA birth certificate, photocopy
- Certificate of Good Moral Character
- Three 1x1 coloured ID photos
- Payment of registration fee
- School envelope, folder and fastener, purchased at the Accounting Office
College transferees
- Honorable dismissal
- Certificate of Good Moral Character
- Transcript of records for evaluation
- PSA birth certificate, photocopy
- Three 1x1 and one 2x2 coloured photos
- Registration fee and the envelope set
Graduate studies — transcript of records photocopy, a 1x1 coloured photo, one long brown envelope, and Form 1 (student profile). New graduate students additionally submit an honorable dismissal and a PSA birth certificate.
Junior high school freshmen and transferees — report card with LRN, certificate of good moral character, PSA birth certificate, two 1x1 photos, the presence of both student and parent or guardian, plus the registration fee and envelope set.
Senior high school — PSA birth certificate, report card with LRN, photocopy of the junior high school completion certificate, certificate of good moral character, ESC certificate, a letter from the junior high principal in the format available through the ESC IMS for ESC grantees, and a QVR certificate for qualified voucher applicants.
The requirement that student and parent or guardian both attend junior high enrolment is worth planning around if you are working.
The money: percentages published, base not
BIT publishes no base tuition figure. What it does publish is an unusually specific set of discounts, and two actual peso amounts.
Grade 7
- ESC grantee: no tuition and no miscellaneous fees
- Non-ESC grantee: 50 percent discounted tuition
Grade 11, by where you finished junior high:
| Background | Published terms |
|---|---|
| Completed JHS at a public school | No tuition, no miscellaneous fees, PHP 500 registration fee per semester |
| Completed JHS at a private school, ESC grantee | No tuition, PHP 3,110 miscellaneous fee, PHP 500 registration fee |
| Completed JHS at a private school, non-ESC | 50 percent discounted tuition |
College and graduate
- GO BEYOND academic merit: graduating in the top twenty of your senior high class in the past school year earns 100 percent tuition discount in any course at any BIT campus
- Summa cum laude, magna cum laude or cum laude graduates get 100 percent free tuition in the College of Law or Graduate School
- Performing artists and athletes who pass the required audition, or represent BIT in junior and senior basketball or volleyball, get free tuition
- Non-merit GO BEYOND: a 40 percent tuition discount for everyone else
That last line is the one most people will actually use, and it is unusual enough to be worth naming plainly: the school advertises a 40 percent tuition discount available to students who qualify for nothing else. Whether that is a genuine reduction or a list price built to be discounted is exactly the question to put to the accounting office — ask for the net amount payable, in pesos, for your program and year level, and treat every percentage as noise until you have that number.
The ESC route is what makes the Grade 7 and Grade 11 terms work; our ESC grant guide explains how the grant is claimed and carried between schools, and the SHS voucher program guide covers the QVR certificate the senior high list asks for.
Campuses
Tagbilaran, Talibon, Jagna, Carmen and Valencia in Bohol, plus Siquijor. The 25-program catalogue above is the Tagbilaran list. Smaller campuses will not run everything, and program availability per campus is not published. The GO BEYOND merit scholarship is explicitly portable across all campuses; your course may not be. Confirm before you plan a move.
Contacts
- 200 Gallares Street, Tagbilaran City, Bohol 6300
- 038 422-8182
Sources
- BIT International College, Tagbilaran campus courses — https://www.bitic.edu.ph/tagbilaran/
- BIT International College, Admission — https://www.bitic.edu.ph/admission/
- BIT International College, Scholarships — https://www.bitic.edu.ph/scholarships/
- BIT International College, About — https://www.bitic.edu.ph/about/
