The purpose of this study is to explore and
describe the personal, academic,
institutional and socioeconomic risk factors
associated with student dropout at Lasallista
University Institution. The sample consisted
of 281 students enrolled in different
programs offered by the University in 2010
and 31 students who had dropped out in
2009. Two scales were constructed asking
for factors that could affect academic
dropouts and for students who had
interrupted their studies at university. The
descriptive analysis used involved
performing the frequency distribution and
obtaining measures of central tendency to
find factors related to desertion according to
participant’s opinion. The results showed
that risk factors for academic dropping out
are predominantly socioeconomic, then we
found institutional factors and having the
lower percentages distributions were
academic and personal factors.
