A SUMMA cum laude, magna at the least, among institutions of higher learning in the Philippines – so has become the Angeles University Foundation in effect, time and again, in its outstanding performance in multidisciplinary professional licensure examinations.
Top 7 best performing school nationwide in the Feb. 2025 licensure examination (LE) for criminologists with a passing rate (PR) of 87.5%.
A perfect 100% overall PR in the architecture LE in Jan. 2025 with the national passing rate (NPR) at 58.715.
Top 4 best performing school nationwide in the 2024 Bar Examinations with a PR of 89.66% for first time takers and 84.38% overall, overly superior to the 37.8%. NPR. Topping the cake, yet – AUF School of Law grad Gerald C. Roxas at Top 3.
December 2024 proved yet another month of excellence for AUF, to wit:
Top 5 best performing school nationwide in the occupational therapist LE with 96.43% PR for first time takers and 84.62% overall. Top 8 was AUF alumna Gwyneth Amber Gonzales Martin.
Best performing school in Central Luzon in the physical therapist LE with 93.75% PR for first time takers and 88.57% overall.
Overall PR of 94.74% and 94.44% for first time takers in the radiologic technology LE where the NPR was 57.55%. Top 9 spot achieved by Ashley Jae Banzuela.
Even when AUF’s passing rate dipped, as in the certified public accountant LE at 63.64%, it still managed to be more than twice above the NPR of 30.17%.
In the Nov. 2024 nursing LE, four AUF takers landed in the Top 10 – Jericho de Jesus at 6th, Jan Avrahm Malonzo at 7th, Jazmine Leigh Cerezo at 9th, and Rhyan P. Garcia, 10th. The College of Nursing emerged Top 1 best performing school nationwide with 100% PR.
In the same month, AUF was best performing school in Central Luzon in the civil engineering LE with 88.89% PR for first time takers and 73.91% overall as against the NPR of 37.09%.
With overall PR of 90.76% as against the NPR of 58.25%, AUF was Top 1 best performing school nationwide in the Oct. 2024 physicians LE, a feat made more remarkable with the exam’s getting one of the lowest NPRs in recent history.
Multiple honors anew in the August 2024 professional examinations.
AUF’s Keiner Rosh A. Yturralde ranked Top 10 in the medical technologists LE where the school achieved a PR of 87.5% with the NPR at 69.47%.
Perfect 100% PR the school achieved in the psychologists LE.
In the psychometricians LE, Mary Ann B. Felker emerged Top 8 and Patricia Isabel Jurado, Top 10.
Another 100% PR in the May 2024 nursing LE, with AUF’s Martina Ampy Soldevilla landing Top 7.
Again, 100% PR in the certified public accountants LE of May 2024, the NPR a measly 30.28%.
Still no stopping the passing perfection of 100 at the April 2024 pharmacists LE among first time takers, and 80% overall.
Yes, also a 100% passing rate in the March 2024 LE for teachers.
Top 8 best performing school nationwide in the March 2024 medical technologists LE with a PR of 97.77 %.
Crowning glory
“Your pursuit of excellence continues to uplift Central Luzon.” So goes the recurring refrain of the Commission on Higher Education in its long-playing congratulatory laudations to the Angeles University Foundation.
The achievements of its alumni make the crowning glory of the university, so it has long been cliched. So trite that it has become a truism at AUF. A 2024 sampling:
Atty. Marie France C. Tiatco, SOL 2016, appointed Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, Department of Transportation.
Reden F. Galang, BSN Batch 2008, named the Best Infection Prevention and Control Nurse in the Philippines for Level 3 Hospitals by the Philippine Hospital Association.
Engr. Christopher M. Vitug, BSCE Batch 2001, recognized as Outstanding Project Manager 2024 – Innovator of the Year by the Society of Project Managers Singapore.
Dr. Arvie C. Vitente, PhD Education Major in Education Management 2021, honored as Physical Therapist of the Year 2024 by the American Physical Therapy Association-New Mexico. USA.
Arun Hemachandra, BS Biology Batch 2012, youngest to be elected Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment as Member of Parliament in his home country of Sri Lanka.
Therein is an attestation to AUF’s commitment to its mission of “Total Development of Man for God and Humanity” affirmed in its placement among the nation’s, indeed, the world’s leading higher institutions of learning.
In the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings 2025, AUF is 21st top university in the Philippines, 169th in South-Eastern Asia, and in 901+ bracket in Asia, the only private higher education institution in Central Luzon to achieve this international status, showcasing its exceptional commitment to quality education.
The World University Rankings for Innovation (WURI) 2024 for Student Mobility and Openness Category released at the 4th Hanseatic League of Universities Conference at Franklin University in Switzerland placed AUF at 57th in the world, and 3rd in the Philippines in the Student Mobility and Openness Category (A2). WURI assesses higher education institutions’ real contributions to industry and society, highlighting innovative education, research, and engagement with society.
As the AUF to the world, so its president too: Dr. Joseph Emmanuel L. Angeles named commissioner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in recognition of his “exemplary leadership and expertise, which align with UNESCO’s mission of advancing education, science, culture, communication, and social and human sciences.”
Excellence in the AUF’s academic system virtually runs through its very DNA.
Nowhere has this become more manifest than at the inauguration of the Emmanuel Y. Angeles Center for Learning and Innovation last December held in honor of University Chancellor Emeritus Dr. Emmanuel Y. Angeles and coinciding with the 117th birth anniversary of university founder Dr. Barbara Y. Angeles.
