Several research highlight communication apprehension (CA) among business students, but no known studies have validated this situation in the Philippines. Thus, this study compares and analyzes the communication apprehension levels of Accountancy and Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM) students from a top Philippine university. McCroskey’s Personal Report of communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) was used to gather data from 242 final-year business students (166 Accountancy, 76 HRM). The results show that Accountancy students scored a slightly higher albeit insignificant overall CA level. The scores of the two cohorts in the four common communication contexts (i.e., interview, presentation, conversation, and group discussion) also did not vary significantly; the findings also confirm no significant relationship between CA and two factors typically linked with speaking competence: gender and type of high school attended.
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