Mapúa Education Group (MEG) is deploying ChatGPT Edu across its institutions in the Philippines as part of a collaboration with OpenAI, the research and product deployment company behind ChatGPT.
The initiative expands MEG’s “Co-Intelligence” strategy, which the group first implemented internally in September 2024 before publicly introducing it in October 2025. Under the program, students and educators across the Mapúa system will gain access to ChatGPT Edu, a version of the platform designed for academic use.
“We are prioritizing the mastery of these tools within our targeted segments at the onset, such as faculty and identified programs that are heavy on research,” said Dodjie Maestrecampo, president and CEO of MEG. “By empowering our educators and students to lead in the ethical use of AI, we can ensure that our graduates will have superior level of AI literacy which they can leverage on enhancing the efficiency of the work that they do and serve as a competitive edge in global employability.”
MEG said the deployment will allow its schools to use advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools beyond basic chatbots or simple prompts. The platform includes features that support research, automation, and creative work while meeting privacy and security standards for academic institutions.
“Around the world, there’s a growing gap between what AI can do and how widely it’s used,” said Oliver Jay, managing director of OpenAI International. “Education is one of the most powerful ways to close that capability gap, and the Philippines has a real opportunity to build AI fluency early, starting with educators and students.”
According to MEG, ChatGPT Edu will provide several capabilities for its community. These include agentic AI tools that allow users to build custom AI assistants to help manage academic tasks and workflows. It also offers research and reasoning tools designed to help users analyze information and cite credible sources.
The platform’s multimodal features can also support technical design and creative work.
The rollout will follow a group-wide AI policy aimed at guiding responsible use of the technology across MEG institutions. The group includes Mapúa University, Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna, Mapúa Malayan Colleges Mindanao, and Mapúa Malayan Digital College.