Oscar M. Lopez Scholarship

Established in 2024, the Scholarship is available to financially needy full-time Philippines undergraduates at SMU. The First Philippine Holdings Corporation is one of several contributors to the SMU Philippine Community Fund. This visionary fund signifies a steadfast commitment to empower and uplift Filipino students embarking on their journey towards higher education at SMU and is dedicated to making a positive impact through educational advancement and catalysing industry growth. Through the generous support of our donors and industry leaders in the Philippines, an array of opportunities will be offered to brilliant Filipino students, including scholarships at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels, exchange scholarships, and innovation internship grants for all undergraduate students. With these diverse avenues for growth and learning, the SMU Philippine Community Fund will uplift the lives of students and the entire Filipino community and aims to shape future leaders and innovators who will bring about transformative change for the industry, community, and nation.

• Citizens of the Philippines.
• Full-time incoming freshman enrolled in any degree programme.
• Good academic results in line with existing and prevailing University guidelines.
• Demonstrated financial needs throughout the Scholarship’s tenure, with gross monthly household per capita income in accordance with prevailing guidelines to qualify for government bursaries.

• $20,000 per academic year (towards subsidised tuition fees)
• Tenable for up to 4 years of the recipient’s academic studies, subject to continued observance of the eligibility criteria and the terms and conditions of award.

•    Apply via Applicant’s Self Service (after submitting an online admission application)    
•    Interview is required of shortlisted applicants

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Office of Admissions and Financial Assistance
Email: admissions@smu.edu.sg

First Philippine Holdings Corporation (FPH) is a diverse Filipino conglomerate driven to improve people’s lives and futures. We aim to build a decarbonized and regenerative world through our investments in key industries of power generation, energy solutions, real estate, and construction. At FPH, we define responsible investment as the interplay of low-carbon operations, protecting nature’s integrity, social inclusion, and robust economic growth.

Through our business segments, we provide a diverse range of products and services, catering to different sectors of the economy. Our energy segment, consisting of power generation and energy solutions, produces power for baseload, mid-merit, and peaking needs of the country's energy grid and the ancillary services and retail market. The energy solutions sub-segment produces transformers for electricity distributors and electric cooperatives and collaborates with their customers to develop a more efficient smart grid solution. Our real estate segment develops infrastructure for residential, commercial, retail, and industrial clientele. And our construction and energy services segment take on complex infrastructure projects, including utilities, public infrastructure, and private infrastructure.

FPH's businesses all work to ensure a decarbonized and regenerative future for all. With our planet facing climate change threats, a concerted effort is necessary. Our clean and renewable energy portfolio brings us closer to a future independent from coal. In all our businesses, our goal—beyond financial gains—is to uplift the lives in the communities where our businesses operate, all without compromising the environment.