Academic trajectories, labor market insertion and personality characteristics of university students

This project aims to analyze students' academic and labor trajectories in the two most popular Uruguayan tertiary schools of Udelar: The Faculty of Economics and Administration (FCEA) and the Faculty of Psychology. It seeks to deepen the link between cognitive, personality, and institutional factors on the advancement, graduation, and access to the labor market of students from these institutions. For this purpose, this project intends to leverage data from the 2018 cohort and follow-up studies conducted in 2019 as part of the PIMCEU project's 2017 edition. On that occasion, researchers studied a sample of students from the schools mentioned above, generated information from surveys, and analyzed and processed administrative records from the student records office. Then, they related this information to the factors affecting early dropout and permanence in each school. On the one hand, this project seeks to study in depth the academic trajectories of the students who continued and those who left their respective schools. On the other hand, to analyze labor trajectories based on specific information collected through a new self-administered form and in-depth interviews. These instruments will complement the information previously collected on personality, cognitive skills, and student characteristics.

Integrantes: Fedora Carbajal, Alina Machado, Jessica Schertz, Alejandro Vázquez (Facultad de Psicología).