Cebu schools make it to top performing list

CEBU, Philippines - The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) named the country’s top-performing schools, including those from Cebu that are offering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing for 2009.

These schools rated higher than 40.70% national passing average set by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the school’s number of exam takers in the recent results of the licensure examinations for Nursing.

As per www.prc.gov.ph, the top Cebu nursing schools for 2009 for Range 1 (with 1,000 and up takers) area University of Cebu (Region 7) with 829 out of 1,529 or 54.22%; University of San Carlos (Region 7) with 508 out of 1005 or 50.55%; and the University of the Visayas-Mandaue City (Region 7) with 679 out of 1,485 or 45.72%.

For the Range 2 (with 100 to 999 takers), the Top Cebu Nursing Schools include Cebu Normal University (Region 7) with 96.54%; Velez College (Region 7) with 95.65%; and Cebu Technological University-Main (Region 7) with 90.84%.

For Range 3 (with 10 to 99 takers), the Top Performing Cebu Nursing School is STI College Cebu, Inc. (Region 7) with 75.00%.

The CHEd also released the names of the 253 low-performing schools as well as the top-performing schools in the country based on national passing average of 40.70 percent based on the licensure examinations the PRC administered last June and November 2009.

Last May 14, CHEd and PRC revealed that there were 147 schools that offer nursing program but have performed below the national passing rate of 46.14 percent for the for the past five years (2004-2008) in the nursing licensure examinations administered by the PRC.

The CHEd said that a more complete list of low-performing nursing schools per region could be viewed at the PRC website (www.prc.gov.ph). — /NLQ (THE FREEMAN)