By Solomon Sagandoy

Cordillera Career Development College (CCDC) continues to strengthen its commitment to gender equality through sex-disaggregated monitoring of academic completion outcomes and student support services designed to help learners successfully complete their degree programs.

Guided by its mission of Bringing Education Closer to the People, CCDC recognizes that meaningful educational access extends beyond admission. It includes tracking progress, identifying barriers to completion, and providing academic, personal, and financial support.

Monitoring Graduation Outcomes by Sex

The Office of the Registrar maintains records identifying graduates by academic program, sex, and graduation date. In SY 2024-2025, there are 618 graduates (333 female and 285 male), and in 2025-2026, there are 763 graduates (378 female and 385 male). Female shares are 53.88% and 49.54%, respectively.

Women’s Graduation Outcomes Across Academic Disciplines

Using CCDC’s preliminary working classification, the updated list includes 196 STEM-related course graduates, of whom 172 (87.76%) are female, and 567 graduates in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences related courses, of whom 206 (36.33%) are female.