UPCAT Results for AY 2025-2026 out

MANILA, Philippines – The University of the Philippines - College Admission Test (UPCAT) results for Academic Year AY 2025-2026 are released online on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

Update April 22, 2025: Results are out! Applicants may view their application results by logging into the UPCAT 2025 results portal (upcat2025results.up.edu.ph) during their designated time slot, using the same email address and password they used during the UPCAT application process.

Approximately 13% of the 135,236 UPCAT takers — or 17,996 applicants — successfully qualified for admission.

Update April 15, 2025: UP said that Acknowledgement Receipts for UPCAT 2025 applicants who took the exam last year, 2024, are now available. Log in to the UPCAT 2025 application portal and download the file for your own safekeeping.

UPCAT was held on August 10 or 11, 2024 in 113 testing centers nationwide and key locations in the Middle East, a significant increase from 102 sites in 2023 to support geographically disadvantaged and financially challenged Filipino youth.

Successful applicants will be admitted in the First Semester of next school year.

RELATED ENTRANCE EXAM RESULTS

This year’s UPCAT marks the second time the exam was administered since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Admission system during the pandemic was via UP College Admissions (UPCA), an admission scoring model where a student’s admission to the university is dependent on their high school grades.

Where to check online UPCAT 2025 results?

Access the portal at https://upcat2025results.up.edu.ph/ using the login credentials you used to apply.

Note: Non-qualifiers will be able to view their University Predicted Grade (UPG), which serves as the basis for evaluating all UPCAT applicants.

Applicants who are offered a slot must reply to the offer by 31 May 2025, Saturday.

Note: Successful applicants are qualified to enroll in UP and will receive offers of admission from the specific UP campus and degree program to which they have been accepted. They are advised to confirm their decision to accept or reject the offer of admission within the given timeline and, should they accept, to follow the registration instructions provided by their admitting campus or academic unit.

UPCAT PASSING RATE

In previous exams, UP said "roughly 10 percent" of examinees usually pass and the university could accept around 15,000 freshmen.

Sixty percent of the UPCAT is based on the test, but 40 percent is based on their final grades in Grade 8 to 11 to determine the UP admission grade (UPG).

"Ang batayan ng UPCAT is 60 percent ng weight ay doon sa test, but 40 percent ang batayan natin [from] Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10 at Grade 11... doon natin malalaman kung sinong matatanggap," UP President Angelo Jimenez previously said.

Note: To implement the policy of democratic access, UP also considers socioeconomic and geographic factors in its admission process.

UP SELECTION PROCESS

Admission into UP is very selective due to high demand. Applicants come from very diverse backgrounds but they are all ranked based on indicators of academic preparedness for university life.

Selection for admission to a campus is based on the applicant's rank, campus quota and/or cut-off grade.
A successful applicant can receive an offer of admission to only one of the applicant's UP campus choices.

The successful applicants for a given campus are ranked according to grade predictors and quotas of their chosen degree programs. Some degree programs are more competitive due to high demand.

Applicants should choose only degree programs they are interested in. If an applicant is not successful for his/her first choice of campus, the process continues in order of priority of the remaining choices.

UPCAT COVERAGE

The UPCAT consists of 4 subtests: Language Proficiency (in English and Filipino), Reading Comprehension (in English and Filipino), Science, and Mathematics.

ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS IN UP

UP is highly committed to admitting the best students and providing increased access to quality higher education.

For SY 2025-2026, all eligible students will be granted free tuition and miscellaneous fees when they enroll in the University of the Philippines, in accordance with the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act of 2017.

In addition to tuition and other fee subsidies given by the National Government, the University also provides other forms of financial assistance to qualified students. Read details here.

Good luck and congratulations in advance to all aspiring Isko and Iska!

— The Summit Express