Arellano University-Manila’s College of Nursing has landed in the ranks of Metro Manila’s top nursing schools with a high student population whose graduates performed impressively in the 2009 nursing licensure examinations of the Professional Regulation Commission for 2009. Francisco Cayco, chairman and chief executive officer of Arellano University, expressed overwhelming pride over the impressive performance of their graduates in last year’s round of PRC examinations, saying it will serve to inspire them in their bid to provide an affordable, but high quality nursing education to poor but deserving Filipinos wanting to become nurses here or abroad. Cayco noted that the high passing percentage rate of their nursing graduates was a difficult feat considering that they have an “open” admission policy that does not bar high school students from public high schools who tend to have low academic competencies. He added that they have the lowest tuition rate among the big Metro Manila nursing schools that topped the 2009 PRC examinations. In the CHED’s Range 1 list covering nursing schools with more than 1,000 exam takers, AU-Manila landed in the top five for Metro Manila schools behind Far Eastern University-Manila, Centro Escolar-Manila, Manila Doctors College, and Manila Central University-Caloocan.