LAW students of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City received merit-based scholarships from the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. for Academic Year 2023-2024.

Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. has granted scholarships to Kerstein Kylle P. Despi, Christa Marie D. Mutuc, and Mary Lynn Y. Te under its Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity Legal Scholarship Program.

“For A.Y. 2023–2024, a total of 11 students were chosen, including 10 third-year students and one fourth-year student. Among these, three were from USC,” the school said.

“The University of San Carlos has been consistently producing FLP winners. In 2021, two USC graduates bagged FLP dissertation awards followed by two other graduates who won in 2022,” it added.

According to its official website, the legal scholarship program is given to the best and brightest law students in the country.

To qualify, the applicants must be in the top 20 of the batch of their respective law schools and submit an essay on “safeguarding of liberty and nurturing of prosperity under the rule of law.”

The scholarship is only open to law schools that have achieved a passing percentage higher than the overall passing rate of the 2022 Bar Examinations, according to statistical data from the Supreme Court Office of the Bar Confidant.

As FLP scholars, the USC Law students will each receive a monetary scholarship award of P200,000 of which a maximum of P100,000 shall be for tuition, P20,000 for book allowance, and P80,000 for the stipend.