THEY DID NOT only make it – they made it big.

The pioneering BS Nursing (BSN) and BS Pharmacy (BS Pharm) graduates of Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) registered an impressive performance in their respective licensure examinations after exceeding the national passing rate.

In a result released recently by the Professional Regulation Commission, NORSU obtained a 100 percent passing rate in the November 2009 Nurse Licensure Examination after all of its 17 BSN pioneering graduates successfully passed the exam. The said licensure examination has a 39.73 percent national passing rate with only 37,527 passers out of 94,462 examinees.

Meanwhile, in the January 2010 Pharmacist Licensure Examination, NORSU registered a 63 percent passing rate which is 20 percent higher than the national passing rate. Out of eight NORSU pioneering BS Pharm graduates, five passed. The national passing rate is 44 percent with 1, 091 takers and only 481 passers.

NORSU, as the newest pharmacy school in the Philippines, ranked third among the top performing pharmacy schools in the Visayan Region and eighth in the whole country, based on the overall performance in the Pharmacist Licensure Examination.  Read More >>>