Registrar's office posts 6% drop in enrolment

By: Florence Ruby C. Bayog

The Office of the Registrar- Notre Dame of Marbel University (NDMU) had recently released the result of the enrolment status indicating a 6 percent drop in the number of enrollees as compared to previous year.

The current school year reported 4,402 enrollees, showing a decrease of 281 enrollees from 4,683 of previous school year’s statistics.

Furthermore, declines in present enrolment were reported as: 13.45% for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), 3.45% for the College of Business Administration (CBA), 1.15% for the College of Education (CED), 9.91% for the College of Engineering and Technology (CET), and 5.29% for College of Health and Sciences (CHS).

Moreover, the BS Nursing which has the greatest number of enrollees among the courses in the university last year decreased by 12.33% from 519 to 446.

According to Ms. Elaine Labiao, Director of Guidance, Testing and Scholarship Center, the said enrolment reduction trend is also felt by other private educational institution.

“Basically, our present economic condition and the increase on demand from foreign countries of technical graduates can be considered as the contributing factor, add it with the number of technical schools that sprouted in the locality”, Ms. Labiao said.

She further explained that they are working to cushion the impact of the said decrease by conducting Career Guidance and Recruitment in various schools in Region XII.