Top Nursing Schools In The Philippines 2013

The Higher and Technical Education Committee of the House of Representatives released over the weekend the list of top nursing schools in the Philippines.

A total of 21 colleges and universities offering nursing programs made it to the list, which was based on the performance of the schools during the last two nursing licensure examinations. The names of the nursing schools are as follows:

1. West Visayas State University-La Paz (100%); 
2. Cebu Normal College (100%);  
3. University of the Philippines Manila (100%); 
4. Chinese General Hospital Colleges (99.30%); 
5. Saint Paul University-Tuguegarao (99.28 percent%); 
6. Benguet State University-La Trinidad (99.15%); 
7. University of Santo Tomas (99.04 %); 
8. Trinity University of Asia (98.95%); 
9. Saint Paul University-Dumaguete (98.36%); 
10. Xavier University-Cagayan de Oro (98.15%); 
11. Velez College-Cebu (98.01%);  noypistuff
12. Cebu City Medical Center (97.06%)
13. Saint Paul University-Manila (96.23%);
14. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (95.45 percent); 
15. Saint Paul University-Iloilo (94.74 percent); 
16. University of Saint Louis-Tuguegarao (94.52 percent); 
17. Remedios T. Romualdez Medical Foundation (94.51 percent); 
18. Saint Louis University-Baguio (93.33 percent); 
19. San Pedro College-Davao (89.41 percent); 
20. Southern Luzon State University-Lucban (88.61 percent); and 
21. Saint Mary’s University-Bayombong (88.15 percent).

The Committee said that only schools which sent more than 50 examinees were included in the list. It added that the list was made in order to help parents decide where to send their children who are planning to take up nursing in college.

Nursing is among the Top 5 most subscribed tertiary education programs in the country. The other four are teaching, criminology, accounting and civil engineering.