Factores asociados a la permanencia de los estudiantes después de aprobar el ciclo Básico de la Facultad de Cultura Física, Deporte y Recreación.

Abstract

Throughout the history of higher education, permanence rates have been identified as low, compared to those expected by institutions. In order to attend to this situation, institutions have developed different improvement strategies to promote the permanence of students. Strategies try to concisely identify both personal, family, social and economic factors that allow the continuity of students within each university. In this case, we intend to identified and classified those strategies by implementing cualitative data resources such as focus group and an open digital questionnaire within the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Recreation in the Santo Tomás University. Thanks to an exhaustive analysis it is possible to understand the implications attached to the factors associated with the permanence of students, as we presents in the results. The research was relevant and allowed us to shape conclusions regarding the improvement strategies given by the University, so that students have higher chances of remaining in the program, once the basic cycle is fullfilled, giving guidelines and starting points for future research.