The University of the Philippines Diliman (91³Ô¹ÏÍø) was the top performing school of the October 2016 Board Licensure Examination for Certified Public Accountants (BLECPA) with all its 69 examinees passing the Board.
The only university with a perfect passing rate, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø was followed by the University of Santo Tomas (90.72%), De La Salle University–Manila (88.66%), Ateneo de Zamboanga (87.14%), Bicol University–Daraga (84.93%) and Far Eastern University–Manila (82.35%). The top performing schools have 50 or more examinees and with at least 80% passing percentage.
91³Ô¹ÏÍø was the top performing school since 2009 and with a perfect passing rate in 2014, 2012 and 2011.
Of the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Virata School of Business 69 graduates, two also made it to the top 10: Fredrick Daniel D. De Guzman, 8th (92.33%) and Julie Anne A. Francisco, 2016 summa cum laude, 10th (91.83%).
Of the 14,390 examinees from 462 schools, 5,249 passed the BLECPA for a national passing rate of 36.48 percent. The examination was administered by the Board of Accountancy on Oct. 1, 2, 8 and 9 in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena and Tacloban.
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