Motivaciones de los estudiantes universitarios para continuar con su formación académica en programas de posgrado
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Date
2017
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Abstract
Introduction. Education has been consolidated as a
strategy to promote the development of knowledge
and community vocational training; and the
advanced academic degrees as the way to rise the
intellectual capital in the society. Objective. Through
an exploratory analysis, we try to identify the main
undergraduate students motivations to enroll in a
graduate program. Methodology. We applied a
self-application questionnaire to 728 undergraduate
students in the last semesters of their vocational
training, at Medellin-Colombia. We explored seven
dimensions related to the motivations to study a
graduate program. Results. The undergraduate
students’ motivations to enroll in a graduate program
are influenced by academic high level offered and
traditional education (non-virtual) methodology of
the advanced academic degrees. Conclusions. The
Higher Education Institutions have to consider the
social context in which they are inmerse, besides their
foundational principles, to response effectively to the
needed from people to enroll in graduate programs.
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Keywords
Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Educación superior, Postgrados, Formación académica, Formación avanzada, Sistemas educativos
Citation
Revista Lasallista de Investigación Vol. 14 N. 2