Asia Pacific Journal of Educational Perspective Vol. 8 No. 2, December 2021 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Effectiveness of the Implementation of Outcomes Based Education (OBE) in the College of International Tourism and Hospitality Management Dr. Sevillia S. Felicen Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas ssfelicen@lpubatangas.edu.ph Asia Pacific Journal of Educational Perspective Vol. 8 No. 2, 1-9 December 2021 ISSN 2782-8557 Date Received: October 28, 2021; Date Revised: December 3, 2021; Date Accepted: December 16, 2021 Abstract – Content-based curriculum, policies of teaching, learning, and assessment, the lack of basic infrastructure and info-structure, lack of facilities, and teachers’ workload are among the key challenges towards implementing an Outcomes Based Education approach. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of OBE in the College of International Hospitality and Tourism Management for the students enrolled in the first semester of 2019-2020 in terms of relevance of the course, course organization, teaching and learning activities; assessment method, learning environment and counselling; tested the significant difference on the effectiveness of OBE when grouped according to program and proposed an action plan based on the results of the study. The study used descriptive design with 3445 responses from the student total population. Frequency, percentage distribution, weighted mean, ranking, Shapiro-Wilk and Kruskall Wallis was used to test the result of the study. The study revealed that student participants assessed the implementation of Outcomes Based Education as highly effective in the aspects of relevance of the course specifically in the indicator the course helped the student develop relevant subject. For teachers and teaching- learning activities, teachers motivated the students to learn according to the assessment of travel and tourism management and Cruiseline operation in hotel services programs. It was found out that highly significant difference was obtained in the assessment of effectiveness of OBE when grouped according to program/specialization and found that students under hotel and restaurant administration considered the implementation most effective. An action plan was proposed to have continuous implementation of OBE and to achieve its perfect implementation. Keywords: Outcomes Based Education, Tourism and Hospitality Management Cite this article as: Felicen, S.S., (2021). Effectiveness of the Implementation of Outcomes Based Education (OBE) in the College of International Tourism and Hospitality Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Educational Perspectives, 8(2), 1-9 INTRODUCTION Outcome Based Education (OBE) is one of the most significant developments in education in recent years and has been practiced worldwide since 1990s. It is currently of much potential in the global educational landscape [1]. It is one of the accepted and successful educational systems in many countries including the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Malaysia, Australia, South Africa, and the Philippines, and currently embraced in over 47 countries around the globe [2]. Outcome based approach is a shift of teaching learning paradigm from teacher centric to student centric. It involves directing all efforts of an education system on what is crucial for all learners to succeed after the learning experience [3]. This also involves relevance of the course, course organization, teaching and learning activities; assessment method, learning environment and counselling [4]. In the implementation of OBE, the courses that will be taken must be relevant to the program enrolled in providing up-to-date developments regarding technology and emerging knowledge. The evaluation process must assess the rate of student learning growth as the source of knowledge for further development opportunities. The learning environment relates to the different physical environments, context, and culture by which learners study. More so, it must have a counselling that is part of the needs of youth and the adolescents in terms of attitude, beliefs, and potential solution for the problem. The Philippines has started such paradigm shift, referred to as outcomes-based education (OBE), in which the focus is not on the teacher or the expert, but on the learners, not on content or instruction, but on the outcomes. In a nutshell, CHED defines OBE as “an approach that focuses and organizes the educational system around what is essential for all learners to know, value, and be able to do to achieve the desired level of competence.” With OBE, there will be an “appropriate assessment of student performance. OBE will not only make it easier for students and workers to move across