Determinantes de deserción de los estudiantes universitarios : caso del Politécnico Grancolombiano

Abstract

The main objective of this article was to identify those factors that influence the risk of desertion of university students. We worked with a sample of 476 students with academic, institutional and socioeconomic information, among others. It was applied a logistic regression to identify the variables of greater impact in the risk of desertion, and this way, it was proposed actions to help mitigate this phenomenon. It is among the most important results that the youngest students of the daytime are those who tend to abandon their studies during the first four semesters. The model correctly predicts 84% of the cases; additionally, the effect of the entrance age, the number of semesters studied, the accumulated average, the total of approved credits, the financing of studies and the obtaining of educational aids with the institution is higher if it is compared with other factors analyzed in this study.