University President Dr. Myrna Q. Mallari eyes the loss of students after graduations and K-12 onset as an advantage despite the anticipated decrease in university’s income. 

Mallari said this would help reduce the faculty-student ratio to 1:35 which later would result to the increase of available facilities.

“We would like to become a premier university and the starting point is [to] improve facilities, and second, we need to reduce the number of students per class,” Mallari explained.

Meanwhile, evening classes are also expected to be dissolved and all students will be accommodated in day.

Cutting down evening classes, she furthered, would also mean fewer expenses for Tarlac State University as this would lessen utilities expenses and night differential rates for the faculty.

Mallari assured there will be no increase in tuition for the succeeding semesters, or of any plans to increase.

The administration had already foreseen this lack of enrolees and had begun to compensate this deficiency with the influx of enrolees since the second semester of academic year 2014-2015. 

Insofar, the enrolment increase had met projected targets at 7% for the second semester A.Y. 2014-2015 and 15% for the first semester, A.Y. 2015-2016.

​

Limited offerings
There would be no changes with the admission procedure for transferees, shifters, or returnees this coming first semester, A.Y. 2016-2017.

However, the college admission test for incoming freshman students would only be administered on selected undergraduate programs in the university namely: Bachelor of Arts in Communication (College of Arts and Social Sciences), Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (College of Business and Accountancy), BS Information Technology (College of Computer Studies), BS Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering), and Bachelor of Elementary Education General Curriculum (College of Education).

​

Faculty support
Mallari said the administration has also provided assistance to lecturers who transferred to secondary education institutions in coordination with the Department of Education.

Furthermore, they had also been sending faculty members to do research, especially in the line of science and technology.

Scholarships were also given to faculty members. She said they are also sending permanent faculty members to conferences and seminars to further enhance their subject expertise with the alignment of their fields studied.

“Come 2018, we are going back to normal and everything is put into their proper places,” Mallari said.