Ginelle Petterson

PHINMA Education

PHINMA Education is a mission-driven, for-profit institution that strives to make lives better by providing accessible and quality education to youth mostly from low-income families so they can empower themselves and their families to live a life that matters. Since its inception in 2004, its growing roster of Philippine schools now includes Araullo University (Nueva Ecija), Cagayan de Oro College, University of Iloilo, University of Pangasinan, Southwestern University (Cebu), and St. Jude College (Manila). PHINMA Ed is also expanding to provide education to countries across Southeast Asia. PHINMA Training Center Myanmar and and PT Ind Phil Managemen (IPM) Indonesia are the first of its schools in the region. PHINMA Ed employs a student-centric and communal mentorship approach to ensure that students are well-equipped to secure their future and contribute to the growth of their chosen industry. For more than a decade, we have built our reputation on transforming existing educational institutions to better serve our students. We begin this process by strategically selecting a school from a key growth area and thoroughly transforming its academics, operations, and student community in order to ensure success for Filipino youth coming from low-income families. Through a "bare bones, no frills, brass knuckles"​ strategy, we are able to keep our tuition fees low and affordable and focus on developing and innovating the most important elements for learning: proper classrooms and facilities, learning techniques and materials, and a great faculty. We do not drive our faculty to publish; instead, we demand they teach well. Through these efforts, we are able to provide accessible, quality education to low-income Filipino youth and make them highly-skilled and employable. Because of our solid reputation, we were able to grow enrolment numbers exponentially. Enrolment figures have grown from 6,000 in 2004 to more than 70,000 in 2019.