Factors that affect the student desertion of the Engineering Degree in Information Systems at FAREM-Estelí, UNAN-Managua. Nicaragua

Abstract

This study was aimed at assessing the factors that affected the desertion of the engineering degree in Information Systems at the Regional Multidisciplinary School Estelí (FAREM Estelí), during the period 2010-2013. It arises from the release that student representatives of the career expose in General Assembly the concern because every day there are fewer students in the different groups; as well as by verifying that the desertion figures provided by the FAREM Academic Registry Office and concluding that they are indeed considerably high. It is placed within the qualitative paradigm, with some quantitative elements. Within the field of education is located as applied research because a retention plan for the career is presented, the product of the ideas provided by the informants and the revised documentation. The study indicates that the main factors affecting desertion are: (a) socioeconomic, most of which are supported only by mothers; (b) work, since working students did not have support from companies, c) staff, because they have poor academic performance, study habits are not sufficient and argue that the career is complex and d) institutional, due to the lack of 63% of dropout students did not benefit from any type of scholarship. Based on the factors that have been most impacted on the desertion, strategic actions contemplated in a retention plan are proposed as improvement alternatives to decrease the same in the race.