Factors Affecng the Decrease of Civil Engineering Student’s Populaon in Technological Instute of the Philippines Quezon City CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION RATIONALE IMPORTANCE The Technological Instute of the Philippines (TIP) was established in February 8, 1962, and Quezon City campus was opened in 1983. It offers different courses which include Bachelor of Science in Engineering, among others. With this, the Department of Civil Engineering was founded to educate and support the students who wish to focus in the said field of study. TIP Civil Engineering students perform well and demonstrate improvements in their studies. In this regard, TIP is considered as one of the instutes or colleges that produce compeve students. This achievement is due perhaps of the trained and knowledgeable instructors and professors of the said instuon. However, the Department of Civil Engineering is currently undergoing decrease in number of populaon of students and causes a threat to the instute in general. The study wants to give the real picture of the whole situaon of the civil engineering student’s populaon. This then would be a great help to those aspiring civil engineering students, to school and to the community as well. To the community, this study will provide the necessary informaon about the factors affecng the decrease of civil engineering students. Giving them an idea on how hard it is to study civil engineering and it will also help them to set themselves on the incoming problems that they will meet, once they study civil engineering. The study will also help the school in providing beer educaonal services for civil engineering students. With the informaon that this study will provide, this school can contribute to their studying civil engineering students. This study will give the researchers and the other civil engineering students an overview on the factors affecng the decrease of their populaon in TIP. This will serve