UP Diliman (UPD) excelled in the October and November 2024 Mining Engineers Licensure Examination, landing squarely on the top spot among the top-performing schools with a 100% passing rate and four examinees entering the top 10.
Leading the 25 passers are Keith Jeremy Miguel, Aloysius Barbarona, Tiarra Ciayen Aguas, and Iñaki Xavier Maglipon. Miguel ranked third with an 89% rating, Barbarona ranked seventh with an 87.3% rating, Aguas ranked ninth with an 86.8% rating, and Maglipon ranked 10th with an 86.75% rating.
The only institution among the three top performing schools to get a 100% passing rate, the UPD College of Engineering’s Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering celebrates its ninth consecutive year of having every mining engineering graduate successfully pass the rigorous licensure examination.
To qualify as a top performing school, an institution must have five or more examinees with at least 80% passing rate.
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 259 out of 365 passed the examination given in the National Capital Region, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, and Davao.