The difficulties of Graduate School (GS) students on writing the technical parts of research, following the institutional form and style coupled with other challenges like time constraints, financial problems, health concerns, advisee-adviser relationships and repercussions of the pandemic, affected the completion of their theses or dissertations that resulted to low turn-out of graduates. Securing Certificate of Precondition on the Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) facilitated by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) also delayed the completion of their theses, specifically those who conducted Indigenous Knowledge-related research. The facilitating factors that helped the GS students complete their Graduate Studies on the given time frame are: varied motivations to complete graduate studies, degree program curriculum, research competencies, research mentoring, school policies and programs.