The St. Paul University of Dumaguete was recognized along with 20 other schools, for its exceptional performance of their graduates in the last two nurse licensure examinations run by the Professional Regulation Commission.
The recognition was given by the House committee on higher and technical education on Saturday. Saint Paul University-Dumaguete posted a 98.36 percent rating in the last two NLE examinations.
Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo, committee chairman, identified the other outstanding nursing colleges as follows, with the percentage of their examinees passing the licensure tests enclosed in brackets: West Visayas State University-La Paz (100%); Cebu Normal College (100%); University of the Philippines-Manila (100%); Chinese General Hospital Colleges (99.30%); Saint Paul University-Tuguegarao (99.28%); Benguet State University-La Trinidad (99.15%); University of Santo Tomas (99.04%); Trinity University of Asia (98.95%); Xavier University-Cagayan de Oro (98.15%); Velez College-Cebu (98.01%); Cebu City Medical Center (97.06%); Saint Paul University-Manila (96.23%); Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (95.45%); Saint Paul University-Iloilo (94.74%); University of Saint Louis-Tuguegarao (94.52%); Remedios T. Romualdez Medical Foundation (94.51%); Saint Louis University-Baguio (93.33%); San Pedro College-Davao (89.41%); Southern Luzon State University-Lucban (88.61%); Saint Mary’s University-Bayombong (88.15%).
Citing PRC statistics, Romulo said the 21 schools were the only ones “with 50 or more examinees and with at least 80 percent of their examinees passing” the nurse licensure tests.
“We are making this list public to enable consumers of nursing education —- prospective nursing students and their parents —- to make a sound choice as to where they will most likely get the best value for their hard earned tuition money,” Romulo said.
“We must point out that there may be other smaller nursing schools with at least 80 percent of their examinees passing the last two nurse eligibility tests but these institutions were excluded from the list simply because they had fewer than 50 examinees,” Romulo added.
According to the PRC, some 38.09 percent, or 33,127 out of 86,953 examinees, passed the nurse licensure tests in June 2013 and December 2012.
Nursing is among the top five most heavily subscribed programs in college, along with teaching, criminology, accounting and civil engineering, wherein graduates must first pass a national licensure examination before they can practice their profession. (PNA)
