Universidades privadas, ¿un subsistema diferente?cómo desarrollan los estudiantes sus preferencias hacia la universidad

Abstract

There exists an increasing interest to know how the students develop their preferences towards the universities and what influences in their perception of such institutions. The area of this investigation relapses in knowing what factors the aspirants bear in mind to select a degree. This work will have in consideration in what it forms the factors of election of university appear in the mind of the students. In this context, a survey on a representative set of students of the first course (the first semester) helps to give light to such a study. The sample is of the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU and there is directed to reveal what vision the students have with relation to the private universities. Given the particularities of this university, the study provides useful data about the formation of preferences of the pupils towards the universities. The information obtained in this study can be in use as tool at the moment of the capture of decision on the part of the institution for knowing the interested students, and also to be able to provide more information and more suitable to the interested parties in order that these could realize his choice.