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Dropout Students in the Past and in the Future

Summary/Abstract: We tend to identify dropout students with stereotypes, and until recent years they have rarely been addressed by the domestic literature. Even the most detailed statistical databases still leave an incomplete picture of them, and they even miss from the panel studies. Researchers at the Center for Higher Education Research and Development University of Debrecen conducted 20 interviews and questionnaire survey (N = 605) with dropout students, and compared their data to databases of persistent and at-risk students (PERSIST 2019, N = 2000). Since the financial reasons play an important role in dropout, we also examined the social and regional composition of fee paying students (based on 30 interviews and statistical data of admitted students). Results show that the dropouts heterogeneous group composed of four distinct subgroups, with different social and educational background, who are in danger due to different reasons. In addition to individual-level causes, system-level characteristics of higher education are also responsible for the increase in dropouts. The disadvantaged students are at-risk in a higher proportion.

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