TL;DR — Holy Trinity College publishes its TESDA list and its basic education programmes in full, including an unusual Sunday and weekend track, but its college department pages name only BS Criminology and the AB program explicitly. The rest of the degree catalogue is not itemised online. The scholarship page is detailed and generous on paper; the tuition it discounts is nowhere published.
Holy Trinity College sits on Fiscal Daproza Avenue in General Santos City, within walking distance of the city hall. It grew out of a preschool founded in 1984, added elementary in 1986 and a high school in 1988, and was registered as a college in 1989-1990. CHED recognises it as a Developing Institution under CMO No. 41, s. 2008, and its college courses carry ACSCU-AAI accreditation. The basics are on our Holy Trinity College listing, with the city on our General Santos schools page.
This guide separates what HTC actually publishes from what it only implies, because the difference matters when you are choosing a degree.
The college structure
Holy Trinity organises higher education into five colleges and a graduate school:
- College of Criminal Justice Education (CCJE)
- College of Teacher Education (CTE)
- College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
- College of Business Management and Accountancy (CBMA)
- College of Engineering and Technology Education (CETE)
- Graduate School
Each department page carries a Programs tab, and on every one of them the tab is empty of readable text. What the pages do state, in the body copy, is enough to confirm two programmes and to infer the shape of the rest.
Confirmed by name:
- BS Criminology, under CCJE. The page sets out programme objectives explicitly for "the BS Criminology Program", which is the whole of that college's offering as published.
- The AB Program, under CAS, with four majors. The department history says three were offered originally — Political Science, English and Community Development — and that Bachelor of Arts in Communication was added in 2011 as a fourth field of specialisation.
Stated only at department level:
- Teacher Education. The CTE page describes basic teacher training and research, and commits the college to "low tuition fees", but does not name BEEd, BSEd or their majors.
- Business Management and Accountancy. The CBMA page describes a business, entrepreneurship and governance centre. The college's name carries "Accountancy", but no accountancy degree is named on the page.
- Engineering and Technology Education. The CETE objectives are written entirely around preparing "competitive IT professionals" — abstract and analytic training, technical skills, exposure to "actual practices in the world of computers". That reads far more like computing than like civil or electrical engineering, which is worth clarifying before you assume an engineering degree is on offer.
- Graduate School. No degrees named. The enrolment requirements page does confirm master's programmes exist, since it lists a separate requirement set for them.
If you are applying to CCJE, our roundup of criminology schools in the Philippines is a useful benchmark for what to ask about board preparation, since criminology is a licensed profession and Holy Trinity does not publish its passing rates.
For everything else, call the registrar and get the exact degree title and major in writing before you enrol. A department page that says "Business Management and Accountancy" is not a guarantee that a BS Accountancy runs this year.
The TESDA list, which is fully published
This is where HTC's site is at its most useful. The School of Technical-Vocational Education and Training publishes thirteen qualifications with their NC levels attached:
| Qualification | Level |
|---|---|
| Bartending | NC II |
| Bread and Pastry Production | NC II |
| Bookkeeping | NC III |
| Cookery | NC II |
| Computer Systems Servicing | NC II |
| Driving | NC II |
| Electrical Installation and Maintenance | NC II and NC III |
| Electronic Products Assembly and Servicing | NC II |
| Food and Beverages Services | NC II |
| Housekeeping | NC II |
| Shielded Metal Arc Welding | NC I and NC II |
The clustering is deliberate. Bartending, cookery, food and beverages, bread and pastry, and housekeeping together cover most of a hotel and restaurant floor — useful in a city with a growing hospitality sector. Electrical installation at both NC II and NC III, and welding at both NC I and NC II, give a ladder rather than a single stop, which is what employers on construction and fabrication sites actually look for.
Durations, entry requirements and fees are not published for any of them. Our TESDA courses guide explains what the NC levels mean and how assessment works, so you know what you are buying before you ask the price.
Basic education, including the weekend option
The School of Basic Education publishes its full structure:
- Pre-school (Level II accredited): Nursery, Junior and Senior Kindergarten
- Elementary (Level II accredited)
- Junior High School (Level II accredited)
- Senior High School — academic track covering STEM, GAS, HUMSS and ABM, plus a Sports Track and a TechVoc Track
- Junior High School (Sunday Class)
- Senior High School (Weekend Classes)
Those last two are the ones to notice. A Sunday junior high and a weekend senior high are rare in the private sector and exist for learners who work during the week or who are returning to school after a break. If that describes your situation, it is worth asking how the contact hours are structured and whether the completion certificate is identical to the weekday programme — it should be, but ask.
The senior high line-up covers all four common academic strands, which is broader than many schools this size manage. If you are still choosing, our SHS tracks and strands explained guide sets out what each strand opens and closes.
Scholarships: generous percentages, unknown base
HTC's headline award is DITO Tayo Sa Holy, for incoming first-year college students, scaled by general average:
| General average | Benefit |
|---|---|
| 87 to 89 | 25 percent discount on tuition |
| 90 to 92 | 50 percent discount on tuition |
| 93 to 94 | 75 percent discount on tuition |
| 95 to 96 | 100 percent free tuition |
| 97 to 100 | Full scholarship including books |
Alongside it the school lists awards for honours graduates (valedictorian, salutatorian, honourable mention), the Dean's List, athletics, socio-cultural participation, Supreme Student Council president, school publication editor-in-chief, PWD students, PNP and AFP dependents, auxiliary staff, plus alumni and family discounts.
It also routes students to external funding: CHED scholarships and grants, TES and UNIFAST, GenSan EDUKAR, the TESDA Diploma Program, KABUGWASON PAGLAOM, LGU scholarships from Malapatan and Tampakan, the Malapatan Lions Club, DSWD, SSS study loans, OWWA, Pag-IBIG and PESO.
The catch is arithmetic. The school publishes no tuition figure, so a 50 percent discount is 50 percent of an unknown number. Ask for the assessment first, then the discount, in that order — and note the DITO Tayo Sa Holy table on the site is dated to an earlier intake year, so confirm the current brackets.
Entry requirements
For new students and transferees the published list is:
- Report card, original plus two duplicate copies (new students)
- Transfer credentials or transcript of records, original plus two duplicates (transferees and graduate applicants)
- Certificate of Good Moral Character, original plus two duplicates
- PSA birth certificate, and marriage contract if married, original plus two duplicates
- Classification or admission test result
- Two 2x2 coloured photographs
The classification or admission test is listed as a requirement rather than a step, which means there is a test and the school expects you to have taken it. The Guidance Testing Center is the office that runs it. Ask when it is scheduled and whether it gates admission or only section placement.
Master's applicants add an interview, PRC license, endorsement letter from a superior, certificate of employment, certificate of weighted percentage average, and permit to study — all processed through the Graduate School Dean's office. That set says clearly that the graduate programmes are built for employed professionals, most likely teachers.
Contacts
- Fiscal Daproza Avenue, 9500 General Santos City (PO Box 45898)
- (083) 552-5578, TelFax (083) 552-3905
If you are comparing options across the city, start from our roundup of private schools in General Santos and bring the same tuition question to each.
Sources
- Holy Trinity College, Academics — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/
- Holy Trinity College, College of Arts and Sciences — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/
- Holy Trinity College, College of Criminal Justice Education — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/college-of-criminal-justice-education/
- Holy Trinity College, College of Teacher Education — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/college-of-teacher-education/
- Holy Trinity College, College of Engineering and Technology Education — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/college-of-engineering-and-technology-education/
- Holy Trinity College, STVET Programs — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/school-of-technical-vocational-education-training-stvet-programs/
- Holy Trinity College, School of Basic Education Programs — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/academics/school-of-basic-education-sbed-programs/
- Holy Trinity College, Enrollment Requirements — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/students/enrollment-requirements/
- Holy Trinity College, Scholarships and Financial Assistance — https://www.htcgsc.edu.ph/students/scholarships-financial-assistance/
