URS President's Report

Increase in Enrolment

For the first semester of Academic Year 2010-2011, 15,858 college and 738 graduate students have enrolled in the ten URS campuses. Morong and Binangonan campuses contributed about one-third and one-fifth of the total number of enrolled students, respectively. The rest of the campuses had below two thousand enrollment. Compared to previous academic year’s first semester enrollment data by campus, Angono, Tanay and Pililla registered higher than 10 percent increases while the rest of the campuses except Taytay also have positive increase in enrollment. In the case of Taytay, the slight decrease can be attributed to various factors ranging from economic to implementation of rationalization of programs. Overall, there is a 5.65 percent increase in the total enrollment for the first semester in the current academic year. In the graduate school (GS), the five campuses with graduate programs have also registered an increase in enrollment and based on the total head count, 190 new graduate students are enrolled in these campuses wherein almost half of these opted to pursue programs offered in Morong campus.

Increase in Number of Graduates

Based on the registrar’s data on graduation, 3,476 college and graduate students were able to graduate last March 2010 which is an increase of 15% from last year’s graduation figure. The top producers of graduates are Morong, Binangonan, Rodriguez, and Antipolo City campus since these campuses offer more baccalaureate programs as well as graduate and post-graduate programs. Only Angono and Cainta campus have significant decrease in the number of graduates with decline of 28% and 37% respectively. The comparative distribution of graduates by campus and by level.