A Wesleyan alumna made it to the top ten of this year’s July Nursing Licensure Examinations, according to official results issued by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in Manila late last month.

April Joy Diane G. Galicia passed the exams alongside thirty other examinees from different schools nationwide who obtained a grade of 84.60, landing in the top tenth of the list.

She was the only alumna from a Nueva Ecija school to be included in the upper ten this year, while other top examinees in the region hailed from Angeles University Foundation (AUF), Tarlac State University (TSU) and Holy Angel University (HAU).

Meanwhile, Wesleyan University-Philippines was Nueva Ecija’s top-performing school in the said board exams.

WUP, which ranks 82nd in the nationwide list, had a total percentage of 43.67 in its overall number of board passers – first-timers and repeaters combined.

It was followed by the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST), which is 95th in the nationwide ranking with 39.93% passing rate.

The College of the Immaculate Conception (CIC), third in the province, was 110th in the national list with 34.86% passing rate, while the Good Samaritan Colleges (GSC) and Araullo University (AU) were 166th and 174th in the national rankings with passing percentages of 21.97 and 19.87, respectively.

The M.V. Gallego Foundation Colleges (MVGFC) ranked 185th nationwide with 16.88%.
The Dr. Gloria D. Lacson Colleges ranked 198th with 12.89%, while the Nueva Ecija Colleges was 202nd in the national list with 11.65%.

The oathtaking rites of successful examinees in the National Capital Region took place on September 20 and 21 at the SMX Convention Center in the SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. ###