The Nueva Ecija University of Science & Technology at Philippines

Is it legitmate?

 

Nueva Ecija University of Science & Technology (Philippines)

Yes, it's legitimate.

 

Yes, but as to how it stacks up against other Philippine universities, you'll have to check with educational experts in the country (the Philippine Commission on Higher Education or CHED) or those familiar with schools in the area.

I wrote a paper about Philippine education two years ago, so here's my two cents:

At least four Philippine universities are considered not just tops in the country but among the best in Asia: the University of the Philippines (which offers DL programs through its Open University), the Jesuit-run Ateneo De Manila University (which has a special program with the Colorado-based Jesuit institution Regis University for its DL program in management), De La Salle University (which offers a DL MBA), and the University of Sto. Tomas. These four have the best overall undergraduate and law, medicine, health sciences, fine arts, agriculture, engineering, business, and graduate IT programs in the country.

Other notable schools:

In the computing sciences, AMA Computer University (with branches in a number of countries) is the largest and probably the most prominent undergraduate IT school in Asia. There are many other strong IT schools in the country -- the Philippines, I think, is the second largest exporter of computer programmers to the United States next to India -- which are trying to outrank this school.

At the graduate business level, rankings of Asian (including Australian) schools consistently place the Asian Institute of Management among the top three.

My suspicion is that the Nueva Ecija school is probably either new or not up there yet with the best, as I've heard of many other schools repeatedly mentioned generally as top picks, such as the University of Asia & the Pacific (with beginnings as an economic think-tank), the Philippine Normal University (largest producer of grade school and high school teachers in the country), the Mapua Institute of Technology (a top engineering school -- graduates have worked at NASA), and Silliman University (a major protestant university in the south, which is rare in this predominantly Catholic country).

Distance learning is offered by very few schools in this country, so it's good that its top schools are actually the ones making a go for it. Hopefully, that would prevent people there from creating the stigma attached to DL programs here in the US.

 

Terrific post, Arch23. Thank you very much.