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Institucional

Moraga-Pumarino, Ana

Salvo-Garrido, Sonia

Polanco-Levican, Karina

Profiles of University Students Who Graduate on Time: A Cohort Study from the Chilean Context

MDPI

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

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Graduating from higher education on time is an important topic, given its relation to students' academic success and the efficiency of the institutions. However, a low percentage of university students finish their studies on time, which poses a challenge that requires the identification of the factors that account for this phenomenon. This study aimed to identify and characterize profiles of students who graduate on time. The population is 514 university students (45% men, 55% women), with an average age of 19.5 years (SD= 1.9) studying business at a university in Chile who belong to four cohorts entering between 2011 and 2014. The results obtained from the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) technique demonstrate eight student profiles constructed considering different variables at the pre-university, transition-motivation, and university levels. As the primary outcome, the profile of the student who graduates on time is characterized by a good performance in the first year of university, enters university right after high school, and takes advantage of institutional support by participating in academic tutoring. These findings suggest that institutions can implement specific strategies from the beginning of the university journey to promote on-time graduation.

2023

artículo original

10.3390/bs13070582

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academic achievement

CART profiles

higher education

terminal efficiency

timely graduation

Psicología

logro académico

perfiles de carrito

educación más alta

eficiencia terminal

graduación oportuna

artículo original

versión publicada

CC BY 4.0

CC BY 4.0

acceso abierto

acceso abierto

WOS:001037903200001

verde# dorado

Psicología

UFRO IF20-0005