Abstract

GANGA CONTRERAS, Francisco; AMESTICA-RIVAS, Luis; RAMIREZ GONZALEZ, Víctor  and  KING-DOMINGUEZ, Andrea. Students dropout, the economic cost for Chilean universities. uct [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.118, pp.17-28.  Epub Jan 05, 2024. ISSN 2542-3401.  https://doi.org/10.47460/uct.v27i118.683.

Student dropout is an ongoing challenge for higher education. It has been shown that it has financial effects for the institutions; however, the cost generated by student dropout is unknown. This study focuses on first-year dropouts in 51 Chilean universities, with the objective of analyzing the costs generated by student dropouts in all their careers, allowing to project in an average horizon the resources that would no longer be received as a result of dropouts. This is a descriptive research with documentary analysis technique. Among the most outstanding results, it is shown that the institutions would lose around USD 1,169,853,410, and that private universities are the ones that register a higher cost associated with first-year university dropouts. On the other hand, it is statistically proven that those universities that register a higher number of enrollments, the cost associated with dropout will be higher.

Keywords : Higher education; dropout; university management, costs.

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