This study aims to assess the leading factors for failing the qualifying examinations among criminology students at Cavite State University- Bacoor City Campus to serve as a basis for an intervention program. Quantitative methods were used in this study, it emphasized object measurements and statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data collected through polls, questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-existing statistical data and generalizing it across groups of people or to explain a particular phenomenon. Specifically, the descriptive survey method was used in this study to facilitate the investigation of social phenomena through gathering of opinion, observation and perception. Hence, the leading factors for failing the qualifying examination among criminology students in Cavite State University – Bacoor City Campus in terms of the following variables in terms of Inadequate study, Unable to understand Subject Matter, Insufficient Review, Previous Failures in Academic Subjects, Weak Strategies.