Determinants of university dropout: a case study in the Dominican Republic

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the factors that motivate desertion at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Santiago Campus, period 2016-2019. To answer the questions and the specific objectives of the same, a descriptive field investigation was carried out, with a quantitative approach, a non-experimental and cross-sectional design. To collect the information, the survey technique and the open interview were used. The probabilistic, complex random sampling was used in several stages and a sample of 415 students was extracted from a population of 12,716 students, of both sexes, from the different careers that are taught in this campus and to carry out the statistical analyzes it was used the SPSS program and Microsoft Excel. In general, the levels of withdrawal or abandonment of subjects are very high 85.6%, likewise those who withdraw subjects, most of them are not formally carried out 59.04%, 75.3% have withdrawn between 1 and 4 times a subject. Those with the highest level of withdrawal or abandonment are: Education and Medicine with 19% and 28% respectively. On the other hand, 15.8% of those surveyed have an academic index below 70 points, where Education and Medicine careers have the lowest indexes, representing 16.3% and 32.6% respectively, 44.2% of those with indexes below 70 points are in the age range of 25 to 32 years, these data do not present any predetermined pattern either.