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Cebu Technological University (CTU) - Cebu City Medical Center College of Nursing Central Philippine University - The first nursing school - started in 1906 and produced the first 3 graduates in 1909.
For schools with 100 to 999 exam takers, the following are the top 20 nursing schools in the Philippines University of the Philippines Manila, 99.41%; Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, 97.82%; West Visayas State University, 96.75%; St. Paul University-Iloilo, 96.16%; University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, 95.80%
The University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center College of Nursing is a nursing school in the Philippines. The College of Nursing was granted Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities level IV accreditation, Federation of Accreditation Association of the Philippines level IV accreditation.
Like other professions, nursing in the Philippines evolved from the apprenticeship system. This system laid the foundation upon which the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses (now Central Philippine University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences) was built and after which other schools of nursing were later patterned.
The college offered a pioneer program in nursing, the 4-year baccalaureate program which conferred upon its graduates the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). The existing nursing program in the country then, was the hospital-based School of Nursing, which conferred upon the graduates the title of Graduate in Nursing (G.N).
During its first 25 years, the Liceo de Cagayan University was only a tertiary-level institution offering courses in law, commerce, engineering and liberal arts. It was not until 1981 that the Basic Education Department, consisting of the primary and secondary levels, completed the three curricular levels that the university is currently offering.
MCU is the first pharmacy school run by Filipinos, and the first nursing school that offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in the Philippines. The patron of the university is Minerva. MCU was a member university of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines from 1952 to 1962.
Two years later in 1961, Virgen Milagrosa Hospital School of Nursing was opened and in 1964 the first graduates of the School of Nursing obtained a 100 percent passing rate in the board exams. The construction of VMUF Complex started in 1969 in a 12-hectare site at Taloy District, San Carlos and in May 1975, the Virgen Milagrosa Institute of ...