13/05/2026
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Comprising the College of Business Administration and Accountancy (CBAA), College of Law (CLAW), and College of Open and Distance Education (CODE), the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) Cluster 3 honored 998 graduates during its 61st Commencement Exercises held May 13 at the UNP Gymnasium, with CBAA recording the most number of graduates among the colleges of the university.
CBAA led the cluster with 881 graduates, composed of 20 Doctor of Business Administration, 29 Master of Business Administration, 56 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy, 366 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Financial Management, 261 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Human Resource Development Management, 37 Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship, 33 Bachelor of Science in Cooperative Management, and 79 Associate in Office Management graduates.
CLaw produced 24 new Juris Doctors, while CODE accounted for 93 graduates consisting of 22 Master of Arts in Nursing, 25 Master in Public Administration, three Master of Arts in Education major in Science, two Master of Arts in Education major in Mathematics, 34 Master of Arts in Social Work, and seven Bachelor of Science in Criminology graduates.
Of the total graduates, six graduated magna cm laude, 88 cm laude, and three with honors.
Guest speaker Dr. Cherrie Melanie Ancheta-Diego graced the celebration with her remarks for the graduates.
โIt dawned on me that your common denominator is, today, you are grounded with a shared responsibility to become agents of change. Pulling your expertise together as professionals will certainly drive economic growth; advance existing discoveries of discourse and human development through research and innovation; and serve as voices of what is just and what is right,โ she said.
She further shared the four core dimensions from Stephen Coveyโs The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for a meaningful, principled, and secure life: love, live, learn, and leave a legacy.
โLet your voices be heard, not only in our country but even across the world. Let this voice of a graduate of the University of Northern Philippines resonate with excellence, with integrity, with efficiency because that is the brand of a graduate of the University of Northern Philippines,โ she added.
In his valedictory speech, Erl Zigfreid P. Nalundasan, a Magna Cum Laude of BS Accountancy, emphasized that even unseen efforts and unacknowledged sacrifices are not meaningless.
โNot everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted truly counts. Because success is not only found in how much we earn but in how much we endure. Not only in how high we climb, but in how we choose to rise. Not only in what we build, but in who we become,โ Nalundasan said. | ๐ท๐ช๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฅ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ข ๐๐ธ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด
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