NEWS RELEASE Office of Rep. Roman T. Romulo (Lone district of Pasig City) Chairman, House committee on higher and technical education 312 South Wing Annex, House of Representatives, Constitution Hills, Quezon City, Tel No. 4424399 January 25, 2014 UP, DLSU, MSU, UST & Bicol U are PH’s top 5 accounting schools The House committee on higher and technical education has recognized the nation’s top five accounting schools, based on the outstanding performance of their graduates in the last two Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensure examinations run by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo, committee chairman, identified the top accounting colleges as follows, with the percentage of their examinees passing the last two CPA eligibility tests in brackets: · University of the Philippines-Diliman (98.81%); · De La Salle University-Manila (94.59%); · Mindanao Sate University-Iligan Institute of Technology (90.00%); · University of Santo Tomas (89.65%); and · Bicol University-Daraga (85.94%). According to the PRC, some 36.10 percent, or 5,799 out of 16,061 examinees, passed the last two CPA qualifying tests in May and October 2013. Citing PRC statistics, Romulo said the five schools were the only ones “with 50 or more examinees and with at least 80 percent of their examinees passing” the last two CPA licensure tests. PRC and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) records show that the country has a total of 398 higher institutions of learning accredited to train would-be CPAs. “As in the past, we are making this list public to help consumers of accounting education -- prospective accounting students and their parents -- decide for themselves as to where they will most likely get the best value for their hard earned tuition money,” Romulo said. “There may be other accounting schools with at least 80 percent of their examinees passing the last two CPA eligibility tests, but these institutions were excluded from the list simply because they had less than 50 examinees,” Romulo said. Accounting is among the top five most heavily subscribed programs in college, along with nursing, teaching, criminology, and civil engineering, wherein graduates must first pass a national licensure examination before they can practice their profession, according to Romulo.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:37:27 +0000
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