With the heart to serve in the healing ministry of Christ, Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP), Mountain View College (MVC), and Central Philippine Adventist College (CPAC) achieved impressive results in the 2025 Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination, resulting from dependence upon the power of the Holy Spirit and the strong collaboration of administrators, faculty, students, supportive parents, and stakeholders.
AUP College of Nursing, located in Silang, Cavite, with its official tagline, “Excellence | Character | Service”, became tche Top 1 Performing School in the Philippines among schools with 50 to 99 examinees this year. With 92 first-time takers and 1 repeater, the school achieved a 100% passing rate. Since 2023, this Sabbath-keeping institution has remained among the Top 10 best-performing nursing schools nationwide.
MVC, the “School of the Light” in Valencia City, Bukidnon, had 91 out of 92 first-time takers pass, and all 2 retakers succeeded. The school achieved a 98.94% passing rate and ranked #2 Top Performing School in the country this year. In recent years, MVC achieved a 93% passing rate for first-time takers, also ranking among the top nursing schools nationwide. In the May 2025 NLE, MVC was again recognized as one of the top-performing schools in its category.
CPAC, known for its tagline “Transforming Lives for Eternity”, located in Murcia, Bacolod City, had 68 first-time takers achieve 100%, while 2 out of its 3 retakers failed. The school attained a 97.18% passing rate, while one of its new nurses, Melchiah Shemei C. Caňal, R.N., landed Top 9 among the 40,692 passers nationwide.
Manila Adventist College in Pasay City had 80 passers out of 81 first-time takers, while 2 of its 4 retakers passed. The school attained a 96.47% passing rate. In recent years, this school, known for its tagline “Equipping Students for Life and Preparing Them for Service”, has also achieved remarkable passing rates and produced passers who became topnotchers.
Philippine Advent College (PAC), a layman-operated Adventist nursing school in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Sur, had all 21 first-time takers pass, while 5 of its 19 retakers also succeeded.
There were 40,692 passers out of 45,192 examinees in the country last November 2025, resulting in a 90.04% national passing rate.
For these young health missionaries, one paragraph of counsel was given by no less than the visionary of sanitariums and medical schools, Mrs. Ellen G. White, who wrote:
“There is a great work to be done by our sanitariums and schools. Time is short. What is done must be done quickly. Let those who are connected with these important instrumentalities be wholly converted. Let them not live for self, for worldly purposes, withholding themselves from full consecration to God’s service. Let them give themselves, body, soul, and spirit, to God, to be used by Him in saving souls. They are not at liberty to do with themselves as they please: they belong to God; for He has bought them with the life-blood of His only-begotten Son. And as they learn to abide in Christ, there will remain in the heart no room for selfishness. In His service they will find the fullest satisfaction.” (The Medical Missionary, May 1, 1906, par. 11)
Let us all pray that these new young health professionals will find their way as instrumentalities in our growing number of Adventist hospitals worldwide. Let us also include in our daily petitions the South Philippine Adventist College School of Nursing, which has newly reopened its doors to students yearning to become part of the healing ministry of Jesus. For all these manifestations of success in so many ways, to God be all the glory.
