TL;DR — STI College Global City runs eight bachelor degrees, two TESDA programs and senior high school in ABM and STEM only. There is no junior high here. None of the eight degrees ends in a Professional Regulation Commission licensure exam, and BS Accounting Information System is not the accountancy degree that leads to the CPA board. Tuition is not published for this or any STI campus.
The address, phone number and campus facts sit on the STI College Global City profile, and the wider set of options is on the Taguig schools page. This post is about what the campus actually teaches.
The full course list
STI publishes a per-campus page, and the Global City list is not the same as every other STI campus. Programs like BS Culinary Management or the education degrees are on other campuses, not this one.
| Program | What STI positions it for |
|---|---|
| BS Computer Science | Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science and analytics, cloud computing |
| BS Information Technology | Applied IT work, systems and support roles |
| BS Computer Engineering | Computer systems design, data communications, systems architecture, software development |
| BS Business Administration | General management and business functions |
| BS Accounting Information System | Accounting, auditing, business analysis and management, with information systems and financial software |
| BS Hospitality Management | Hotel and food service operations |
| BS Tourism Management | Travel, tours and destination operations |
| AB Communication | Broadcasting, journalism, public relations, advertising, digital media |
Two TESDA programs sit alongside the degrees: Data Collection and Annotation for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Level II, and AI Prompting and Automation at Level III. These are short, competency-based programs rather than degrees, and they are unusual on a college campus list. Our TESDA courses guide explains how the levels and assessments work.
Senior high school covers two academic tracks only, Accountancy Business and Management, and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. The campus senior high school ID is 401688. There is no HUMSS, no GAS and no TVL track here, and no junior high school at all.
Nothing here ends in a licence, and that is the point to understand
This is the single most useful thing to know about the Global City list, and no course page says it out loud.
Not one of the eight degrees leads to a Professional Regulation Commission licensure exam. There is no accountancy programme, no nursing, no engineering discipline that carries a PRC board, and no education degree feeding the Licensure Examination for Teachers. Our list of courses with board exams is the quick check if you want to see which fields are licensed at all.
Two specific traps:
BS Accounting Information System is not BS Accountancy. STI describes BSAIS as pairing accounting knowledge with management information systems, financial software, networks and security, aimed at accounting, auditing, business analysis and management careers. All true, and none of it is the CPA route. If your child says they want to be a CPA, BSAIS will not get them to the board exam.
BS Computer Engineering has no board either. Computer engineering is not among the PRC's regulatory boards, unlike electronics engineering. A CpE graduate practises without a government licence anywhere in the Philippines, so this is not an STI limitation, but it does mean the degree name is doing less work than it looks like it is.
None of this makes the programs weak. It means the things that decide your hiring are the internship, the portfolio and any certifications you stack on top, not an exam score. For the computing degrees specifically, our BS Computer Science guide covers what employers actually look at.
Who this campus suits
The Global City campus is at the STI Academic Center on University Parkway in Bonifacio Global City, and the location is the practical argument for it. If you are commuting within BGC or from the southern half of Metro Manila, the campus sits inside the business district where a large share of the IT, business process and hospitality employers are. Internship and part-time work are physically closer than they would be from a suburban campus.
The trade-off is the narrow list. Eight degrees, two strands and no junior high is a small menu compared with a full university, and a student who changes their mind mid-way has fewer places to move to without changing campus. Ask the campus how internal shifting between programs works before you enrol, and whether all eight are actually running with full year levels rather than being listed and offered on demand.
Getting in
STI publishes one system-wide admission requirements page rather than per-campus lists, and it covers more entry routes than most schools bother with.
College freshmen — original Form 138 or SF9-SHS, original Form 137 or SF10-SHS, PSA-issued birth certificate, original certificate of good moral character or a recommendation from the principal, and a medical certificate of chest X-ray results. Hospitality applicants add a Hepatitis A and B screening certificate.
College transferees — certificate of transfer or honourable dismissal, official transcript of records, PSA birth certificate, certificate of good moral character or a recommendation from the dean or department head, and the chest X-ray certificate.
Grade 11 entrants — original Form 138 or SF9-JHS, original Form 137 or SF10-JHS, PSA birth certificate, certificate of good moral character, and the chest X-ray certificate. Our ABM strand guide covers what the strand actually involves before you pick between the two on offer here.
Alternative Learning System passers — certificate of rating indicating eligibility, PSA birth certificate, any one of a barangay, police or NBI clearance, certificate of good moral character, and the chest X-ray certificate. This is a genuinely open door and one that many private colleges do not publish at all.
Foreign applicants with records from a foreign school — five copies of the Student's Personal History Statement with thumbprints and a recent 2x2 photo, scholastic records authenticated by the Philippine Foreign Service Post in the country of origin, a notarised affidavit of support with bank statements, and an authenticated passport data page and birth certificate.
Scholarships, and the number nobody publishes
STI runs the STI Open Scholarship program for incoming Grade 11 and first year college students from any DepEd-recognised public or private high school. Its stated terms are unusually open: no grade requirement to apply, with grants decided by an examination you register for online. Partial and full grants are both on the table.
The GSIS-STI Educational Assistance Program gives 20 percent tuition subsidies in senior high and college to qualified GSIS members, dependents and family members up to the sixth civil degree. It applies to incoming Grade 11, college freshmen and transferees in any year level, and requires an application form from the campus, a photocopy of the UMID card, the presence of the GSIS member, and proof of relationship.
On tuition, STI states in its own scholarship terms that the subsidy amount will vary depending on the student's program and campus. It does not publish the underlying figures for Global City or anywhere else. A percentage discount on an unpublished amount is not information, so call the campus on 8551-4984 and ask for a full assessment for the specific program and year level before you commit.
What to ask on a campus visit
STI is a franchise-style network, and campus quality varies more than the shared branding suggests. That makes the campus-level questions worth more than the brochure.
Are all eight programs actually running? A program listed on the campus page is not the same as a program with a full first-to-fourth year cohort. Ask how many students are enrolled in your intended program at each year level. A degree with a handful of students is one merger announcement away from being taught in combined classes.
Who teaches the specialisation subjects? For the computing degrees, ask whether the third and fourth year subjects are handled by faculty with industry experience or by generalists. In BGC this should be an easy yes, given who works nearby, so a vague answer tells you something.
Where do students do their internship? Ask for the actual list of companies that took Global City students last year for your program, and how many stayed on. Proximity to BGC employers only helps if the campus has relationships with them.
How do the TESDA programs interact with the degrees? Ask whether the AI-related short courses can be taken alongside a degree, whether they carry credit, and who runs the competency assessment.
What is the total first-year cost? Not tuition alone. Ask for miscellaneous fees, laboratory fees, the uniform, and any required software or hardware, since a computing programme at a BGC campus can carry equipment expectations that a fee schedule does not mention.
Sources
- STI College Global City campus page (program list, TESDA programs, senior high strands, address, senior high school ID) — https://globalcity.sti.edu/
- STI, Admissions requirements (junior high, senior high, college freshmen and transferees, ALS passers, foreign students) — https://www.sti.edu/admissions
- STI, Financial Assistance Programs (STI Open Scholarship, GSIS-STI Educational Assistance Program terms) — https://www.sti.edu/financialaid
- STI, program detail pages for BS Computer Science, BS Computer Engineering, BS Accounting Information System and AB Communication — https://www.sti.edu/tertiary-programs
- STI Campuses directory — https://www.sti.edu/campuses-details.asp?campus_id=GLO
