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\n\u201cThe two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Twain.
\nAccording to the\u00a0indicators of academic performance<\/a>\u00a0of undergraduate students in Spain, one in three new students for the 2015\u201316 academic year dropped out of the undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n

Of this percentage (specifically 33.2%), 12.4% changed degrees and 20.8% permanently left the university system.<\/p>\n

Dropout Factors<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There are numerous studies that show what the factors of university dropout are.\u00a0These are usually classified into three large blocks:<\/p>\n

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  1. Individual factors:<\/strong>\u00a0Demographic, such as gender and age;\u00a0socioeconomic, such as the social, economic and cultural situation of the student’s family or their degree of emancipation;\u00a0and academics, specifically previous educational experience and academic expectations.<\/li>\n
  2. Environmental factors:<\/strong>\u00a0such as integration into the university and academic performance, and the degree of institutional commitment.<\/li>\n
  3. Institutional factors:<\/strong>\u00a0Type of university (public or private, face-to-face or online);\u00a0resources and quality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In March 2022, the Ministry of Universities launched the \u201c\u00a0Analysis of the dropout of undergraduate students in face-to-face Universities in Spain<\/a>\u00a0\u201d.<\/p>\n

    These investigations show that the main risk of dropping out occurs at the beginning of studies, affects men more than women and students from families with a lower socioeconomic and cultural level.<\/p>\n

    The price of tuition for the degree is a crucial factor: the higher the price, the greater the probability of dropping out.<\/p>\n

    When are you most likely to quit?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    These dropout rates also affect non-face-to-face universities, large universities, degrees in the branches of Arts and Humanities, degrees that are not preferred and with lower access grades, as well as double degrees. .\u00a0Scholarship students with lower economic resources are more likely to drop out than scholarship recipients with a higher income level.<\/p>\n

    These are alarming data that glimpse an inefficiency of the educational system in Spain and that affect the reputation of the university system.\u00a0They should be the object of public concern, and we should not blame it on “the youth of this age.”<\/p>\n

    For example, some universities have already launched\u00a0mentoring programs<\/a>\u00a0to interact, integrate and support first-year students, such as the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Ciudad Real of the University of Castilla-La Mancha.<\/p>\n

    Pre-College Soft Skills<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Society is not going through a time of change, but a change of time.\u00a0We define it as\u00a0a knowledge society<\/em>\u00a0by the volume of knowledge generated, the use we make of it and its dissemination through numerous media.\u00a0There are thousands of possibilities to acquire knowledge, and all this can make us doubt the path to follow, even the most experienced.<\/p>\n

    Some of the phrases we hear regularly have to do with this feeling of \u201cexcess\u201d knowledge:
    \n\u201cStudying is useful for something?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    “What study if I don’t know what I want to do?”<\/p>\n

    “I don’t like this race, but it has many starts!”<\/p>\n

    \u201cWith this scenario, why am I going to study?\u201d<\/p>\n

    “A title is worth nothing, just to hang it on the wall!”<\/p>\n

    “If rich people haven’t studied, why should I?”
    \nThe pre-university stages are essential to educate in effort, resilience, discipline, productivity, planning, intelligence and emotional management.\u00a0Even on a more spiritual level, in search of\u00a0    a meaning in life<\/a>\u00a0, as well as\u00a0other soft skills<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

    A subtle change of perspective<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Changing the way you see your college career can also help you make the right choice.\u00a0Instead of considering the title as a goal, it is better to see it as a means to find our reason for being, what we will contribute to society.<\/p>\n

    We must learn to analyze our aptitudes, but our attitude and our work of internal analysis, self-knowledge and self-observation from the educational stages prior to university will also influence.<\/p>\n

    Author Bio:<\/strong> Consoli Quintana Redis a Doctor in Economics and Business. Professor and researcher in the area of \u200b\u200bApplied Economics at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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