The Commission on Higher Education announced on Tuesday that it has given free college education to 600 students in San Nicolas, Pangasinan under the agency's Tulong Dunong program.

In Region 1, more than 27,000 students are beneficiaries of the free higher education and 23,000 young Filipinos are getting the Tertiary Education Subsidy, according to CHEd chairperson Prospero de Vera III.

"This means that under the current administration, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s promise that all young Filipinos who want to study in college will be given the opportunity," De Vera said in his speech during the Lab for All Caravan in Binalonan, Pangasinan.