WITHOUT a doubt, the best performers among private higher educational institutions in the Philippines are Catholic schools, and immediately Ateneo de Manila University, De la Salle University, the University of Santo Tomas, San Beda University in the NCR area and St. Louis University in Baguio come to mind.
Like all other colleges and universities, our Catholic institutions have been caught up in the rigmarole of accreditation, ISO certification and vying for distinction as centers of excellence and centers of development. But if all that can be said of them is that their graduates top licensure examinations and their professors pack supposedly high-impact journals with their research, why do they have to be Catholic colleges and universities even?
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