TL;DR — Emilio Aguinaldo College is a health sciences school with a business and criminology wing attached, not a general university that happens to teach nursing. Sixteen schools in Manila, fourteen in Cavite, and the large majority of its degrees end in a Professional Regulation Commission licensure exam. What it does not publish anywhere is a tuition figure.
We have already covered EAC's School of Medicine for foreign students in detail. This post is about everything else. Basic facts sit on the Emilio Aguinaldo College profile, and other options nearby are on the Manila schools page.
The shape of the school
EAC organises itself into schools rather than colleges, and the count tells you what it is. Manila has sixteen units; ten of them are health professions. Cavite has fourteen; nine are health professions. Whatever else EAC does, it is built around producing licensed clinical practitioners.
EAC Manila schools: Arts and Sciences, Business Education, Criminology, Dentistry, Engineering and Technology, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Marian School of Nursing, Medical Technology, Medicine, Midwifery and Caregiving, Pharmacy, Physical, Occupational and Respiratory Therapy, Radiologic Technology, Teacher Education, the Graduate School, and the ETEEAP unit.
EAC Cavite schools: Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Accountancy, Criminology, Dental Medicine, Education, Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Tourism and International Hospitality Management, Law and Justice, Medical Technology, Optometry, Nursing and Midwifery, Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, and Radiologic Technology.
Two units exist only in Cavite: Optometry and Law and Justice. Three exist only in Manila: Medicine, the Graduate School and ETEEAP. Everything else runs on both campuses, but admissions are handled per campus with separate email addresses and separate application forms, so pick your campus before you apply rather than after.
The undergraduate list
From EAC's own Manila admissions page:
Health sciences — BS Nursing, BS Midwifery, BS Medical Technology, BS Pharmacy, BS Nutrition and Dietetics, BS Physical Therapy, BS Occupational Therapy, BS Respiratory Therapy, BS Radiologic Technology, Doctor of Dental Medicine, Doctor of Medicine.
Business and public-facing — BS Accountancy, BS Business Administration with financial, marketing and operations management majors, BS Customs Administration, BS Real Estate Management, BS Hospitality Management.
Technology and engineering — BS Computer Engineering, BS Information Technology.
Arts, sciences and education — BA Communication, BS Psychology, BS Biology, Bachelor of Elementary Education, Bachelor of Secondary Education majoring in English or Social Studies.
Public safety — BS Criminology.
Graduate — Doctor in Business Administration, PhD in Business Management, Criminal Justice or Educational Management, Doctor of Public Administration, Master in Business Administration, MS Criminal Justice, MA Education, Master in Public Administration, Master in Hospital Management, MA Nursing.
Where each one leads
The honest way to read this catalogue is by licence, because almost everything on it is regulated.
Programmes ending in a PRC board exam: Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Technology, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Radiologic Technology, Dentistry, Medicine, Accountancy, Customs Administration, Criminology, Computer Engineering, Real Estate Management, and both education degrees through the Licensure Examination for Teachers. Psychology graduates can sit the psychometrician exam.
Programmes with no PRC licence: Business Administration, Information Technology, Hospitality Management, Communication, and Biology on its own.
That ratio is the argument for EAC and also the warning. A licensed degree gives you a hiring gate that protects you; it also means a school's board passing rate is not a nice-to-have statistic but the single number that decides whether your four years converted into a career. Ask for the programme's most recent passing rate and the national average for the same sitting, and ask for both in writing. Our board exam passing rates by course gives the national baseline to measure a school's number against, and our BS Nursing guide shows what a licence route looks like end to end for the largest of EAC's clinical programmes.
Two programmes deserve a note of their own. BS Real Estate Management is a genuinely uncommon offering and it does lead to a PRC licence for real estate brokers, so it is not the soft business option it can look like. BS Occupational Therapy and BS Respiratory Therapy are also uncommon, and both are small cohorts anywhere they are taught — ask how many students are actually in the current year level, because a tiny cohort cuts both ways on teaching quality and on peer support.
Getting in
EAC publishes the freshman document list plainly. For college:
- A duly accomplished online or fillable application form.
- Senior high school report card, Form 138 or SF9, original copy.
- Certificate of good moral character, original copy.
- PSA-issued birth certificate, photocopy.
- Four copies of a 2x2 coloured photograph.
- EAC's assessment form and undertaking form.
Separate downloadable forms exist for senior high school applicants, for college applicants and for foreign students, plus a waiver form for non-compliance with admission requirements — which is worth knowing exists if a document is genuinely delayed.
What EAC does not publish is an entrance test. Neither campus admissions page describes a test, a test fee, a schedule or a cut-off score, though EAC announcements have referred to entrance examinations for senior high applicants. Do not assume there is no exam and do not assume there is one; ask the admissions office for your campus and your level. Contacts are [email protected] for Manila and [email protected] for Cavite.
Second-degree and working applicants should look at ETEEAP, EAC's expanded tertiary education equivalency and accreditation unit in Manila, which credits documented work experience toward a degree. It is a different route with a different assessment, and it is often a better fit than starting a second course from scratch.
The two Cavite-only schools
Optometry is the more consequential of the two. There are very few optometry schools in the Philippines, and the degree ends in the optometrist licensure exam. If optometry is your plan, EAC Cavite is on a short national list, and that changes the calculus — you are choosing a campus because it is one of the few that teaches the subject, not because it is convenient.
The School of Law and Justice sits at Cavite rather than Manila, which is worth knowing because most people assume law follows the medicine campus. Law is a post-baccalaureate professional programme with its own admission process, so it is not part of the freshman route described below.
Senior high school
EAC runs senior high at both campuses and publishes a separate downloadable application form for it, distinct from the college form and from the foreign student form. That is the extent of what its admissions pages publish about senior high.
The strand list is not on those pages. Our directory record carries STEM, ABM and HUMSS for EAC, and EAC's wider site material has also referred to a sports strand and to technical-vocational offerings. Treat that as indicative and ask the admissions office for the current list, because strands open and close year to year on enrolment numbers.
If you are choosing a strand with an EAC health science degree in mind, STEM is the route the clinical programmes are built around.
ETEEAP, the route most people do not know exists
EAC Manila runs an Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program unit. ETEEAP credits documented work experience toward a bachelor's degree, so someone who has spent a decade doing a job without the paper qualification can be assessed against the degree rather than made to sit through all of it.
It is not a shortcut and it is not automatic — you are assessed, and the assessment can conclude that you still need substantial coursework. But for a working adult it is usually a better question to ask than "how do I fit four years of night classes around my job".
The fee gap
EAC publishes no tuition figures. There are payment option pages for Manila and for Cavite, but no per-programme schedule, no range and no downloadable assessment. Our directory record for EAC carries no tuition figures either, because there are none to carry.
That matters more here than at a general school. Clinical programmes run laboratory fees, uniform costs, duty requirements and, in dentistry, instrument kits that can rival tuition itself. A quoted tuition figure for a health science degree is not the cost of the degree. When you call, ask for the full first-year assessment including laboratory and clinical fees, and ask separately what the duty and equipment costs are in years three and four. Then check whether you qualify under any government student aid scheme.
Sources
- Emilio Aguinaldo College, Admissions Manila Campus (programme list, freshman requirements, forms) — https://www.eac.edu.ph/admissions-eacm/
- Emilio Aguinaldo College, Admissions Cavite Campus (forms, contacts) — https://www.eac.edu.ph/admissions-eacc/
- Emilio Aguinaldo College homepage and school navigation for both campuses — https://www.eac.edu.ph/
- Emilio Aguinaldo College, School of Arts and Sciences Cavite — https://www.eac.edu.ph/school-of-arts-and-sciences-cvt/