Performance of Civil Engineering Graduates in a Private University on Licensure Examinations from 2016 to 2019

Abstract

The research assessed how well graduates with a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from a private university in Isabela performed in the licensure examination from 2016 to 2019. According to the data, candidates exhibited a low level of performance in the Licensure Examination from 2016 to 2019 with only two out of eight (2/8) batches that performed higher than the national passing rate. The first-time examinees’ institutional passing rates got lower when compared to the national passing rates. The re-takers institutional passing rates also got lower performance when compared with the national passing rates. The variance of performance of the first-time examinees is superior compare to the re-takers in the Licensure Examination for Civil Engineers. The examinees find Structural and Construction subject as the most difficult to answer in the Licensure Examination for Civil Engineers followed by Mathematics and Surveying, and Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering as the easiest one. There is no significant difference in the performance of the graduates of Civil Engineering Program in a private university of Isabela in the Licensure Examination for Civil Engineers from 2016 to 2019. The researcher proposed several specific activities to improve the performance of the graduates of the Civil Engineering Program in the Licensure Examination.