La deserción en la carrera de Contador Público: el caso de la UNRN y el impacto de la incorporación de un ciclo introductorio al plan de estudios

Abstract

Dropout is a widespread problem in higher education institutions, which adopt different policies to try to mitigate it. The present work investigates the effects on the dropout rate produced by the incorporation of an introductory cycle to the curriculum of the Public Accounting career of the National University of Río Negro, given that such modification was carried out with the purpose of leveling the entry conditions of students and encourage their permanence. The analysis of the quantitative data provided by the institution and the information obtained from surveys and interviews, carried out with students and teachers of the course, allowed us to know the evolution of their dropout rate, the moment in which the greatest dropout occurs, as well as well as investigate the causes that generate it.