A majority of the returning pensionados were assigned as educators, with some later becoming superintendents. For instance, University of Michigan alum Esteba Adaba became the director of education for the Philippines under the Roxas Administration; he would then go on to become a Philippine senator. Jorge Bocobo, an Indiana University alum, went on to become President of the University of the Philippines. Returning pensionados who studied nursing established nursing schools, whose students would go on to immigrate around the world to fill nursing shortages. Pensionado Bienvenido Santos made his name as an author. Other pensionados took influential roles in government, including Secretary of Finance Antonio de las Alas, Senator Camilo Osias, Major General Carlos P. Romulo, and Chief Justice José Abad Santos. When architects began to be registered in the Philippines in 1921, a pensionado was the second to be registered. Ultimately, about 500 pensionados received scholarships to be educated in the United States.
