I graduated from De La Salle University, one of the Top 3 Universities here in the Philippines, and also has the most expensive tuition fee among the three. During my college years, my parents are incapable of paying DLSU's school expenses. Fortunately, my parents took an education plan (when I was one year-old) which covered almost 80% of my total school expenses. The total amount of money invested by my parents was around 23K, but it was able to cover almost 450K worth of tuition fee expenses in DLSU. Do you think it's worth investment? DEFINITELY.
According to CHED, tuition fee increases around 12.25% per annum. On top of that, there are also increasing miscellaneous expenses (i.e. allowance, food, uniform, books) caused by inflation rate. Average inflation rate is around 5.8% (based from 1995-2009).
If we are to consider this annual increase, this will be the projected annual tuition of known universities here in the Philippines
2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | 2030 | |
| UA&P | 201,600 | 359,271 | 640,257 | 1,141,000 | 2,033,375 |
| DLSU | 139,165 | 248,006 | 441,971 | 787,635 | 1,403,644 |
| ADMU | 114,174 | 203,469 | 362,602 | 646,193 | 1,151,580 |
| Assumption | 106,237 | 189,325 | 337,396 | 601,272 | 1,071,526 |
| San Beda | 80,832 | 144,051 | 256,712 | 457,487 | 815,287 |
| UE | 60,279 | 107,423 | 191,439 | 341,162 | 607,985 |
| UST | 56,778 | 101,184 | 180,320 | 321,348 | 572,673 |
| AMA | 53,071 | 94,578 | 168,547 | 300,367 | 535,284 |
| Lyceum | 47,628 | 84,878 | 151,261 | 269,561 | 480,385 |
| UP | 45,360 | 80,836 | 144,058 | 256,725 | 457,509 |
| Holy Spirit | 41,001 | 73,068 | 130,214 | 232,054 | 413,544 |
