Enrollment Rate Increases by 7%

by Joefell Francis Balagosa with reports from Romela Christy Magturo

Academic Year 2012-2013 enrollment rate for the first semester increased by seven percent compared to last year, record released by the Office of the Registrar on June 28.

Lorna T. Cachero, Dev. Ed. D., Director of the Admissions and Registrar presented the report with Alijis Campus having the highest increase of 18%.

Record shows that Post-Graduate Education has 11 enrollees, Graduate Education with 394 enrollees, Civil Engineering with 285, Bachelor of Secondary Education with 826, BS in Industrial Technology with 2063, and Bachelor of Elementary Education with 1064.

Meanwhile, BS in Fisheries has 263 enrollees, BS in Accountancy with 225, BS in Business Administration with 1189, BS in Office Administration with 203, BS in Information System with 895, BS in Information Technology with 684, BS in Entrepreneurship with 140, BS of Technical Teacher Education with 66, BS in Hotel and Restaurant Management with 282, BS in Criminology with 749, Bachelor of Arts with 257, Teacher Cert Program with 55, and BS in Accounting Technology with 367.

Associate in Information System, Office Administration and Industrial Technology have a total of 590 enrollees. In the other hand, Laboratory school’s Basic Education (Elementary) has 223 enrollees and Basic Education (Secondary) with 167; Preschool has 71 enrollees.

Talisay Campus increased by five percent compared to last year’s total enrollees from 4651 to 4897. Alijis Campus increased by 18 percent, Fortune Town by three percent, and Binalbagan by six percent.

From 10, 362 enrollees last academic year, it increased to 11, 069 as of this year enrollment of the four campuses.