A TOTAL of 3,142 out of 6,963 UST graduates, or 45.12% of the Class of 2025, earned Latin honors this year, based on data from the Office of the Registrar obtained by the Varsitarian.
This year’s percentage marks one of the highest rates of honor graduates in over a decade. Since 2013, the rate of graduates who earned Latin honors has never surpassed 15% until 2022, when UST began implementing hybrid learning after the Covid-19 pandemic.
This rate was still lower than the number of Latin honor graduates in Academic Year (AY) 2023-2024, when 3,684 of 6,477 or 57% of graduating students received Latin honors — the highest in 11 years.
Of the 3,088 Latin honors thisyear, 97 graduated summa cum laude, 913 magna cum laude and 2,132 cum laude. This tally is fewer than last year’s 166 summa cum laude, 1,067 magna cum laude, and 2,451 cum laude graduates.
The Faculty of Canon Law recorded the highest rate of Latin honor recipients this year at 92%, or 11 out of its 12 graduates, followed by the Faculty of Philosophy with 89% of graduates earning Latin honors (17 of 19).
Tallying the third highest percentage was the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, where 86% of graduates (451 of 527) took home Latin honors. It produced the most summa cum laude graduates with 42 and magna cum laude with 223.
The Faculty of Arts and Letters produced the most cum laude graduates at 270. It also tallied the fifth highest rate of honor graduates at 65% or 459 out of 705 students.
Meanwhile, the Faculty of Civil Law recorded the lowest percentage of graduates with Latin honors, with only 10 of its 105 graduates, or 10%, receiving the academic distinction.
Here are the numbers of Latin honor recipients across other academic units:
- College of Nursing – 85% (150 of 177)
- Faculty of Theology – 63% (26 of 41)
- College of Information and Computing Sciences – 61% (253 of 414)
- College of Fine Arts and Design – 59% (223 of 377)
- College of Rehabilitation Sciences – 59% (160 of 272)
- Conservatory of Music – 51% (30 of 59)
- College of Education – 50% (141 of 282)
- Faculty of Pharmacy – 47% (279 of 598)
- College of Commerce and Business Administration – 43% (280 of 646)
- Graduate School of Law – 41% (7 of 17)
- Faculty of Medicine and Surgery – 36% (146 of 408)
- College of Science – 34% (189 of 558)
- College of Architecture – 25% (79 of 318)
- Graduate School – 21% (47 of 220)
- Faculty of Engineering – 16% (121 of 745)
- Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy – 14% (56 of 400)
- Institute of Physical Education and Athletics – 11% (7 of 63)
UST concluded its month-long solemn investiture rites with the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery’s graduation ceremony on July 1. with reports from Marco Luis D. Beech, Mabel Anne B. Cardinez, and Logan Kal-El M. Zapanta
