Student’s social background does not seem to have any significance for withdrawal from college education that has begun, according to a new UKÄ report on throughput at the university.
“It shows that extended recruitment is not directly related to a lower throughput. If higher education institutions increasingly recruit students with good grades from environments with little experience in university studies, the decline can even be reduced, “says Fredrik Svensson, one of the report’s authors.
The percentage of early withdrawal varies greatly between programs – from 8 percent on the medical program to 35 percent on the subject teacher program. Full report: http://www.uka.se/download/18.2b48d4bc15ec792491a331e/1507896110834/rapport-2017-10-12-tidiga-avhopp-fran-hogskolan.pdf