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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2022-11-18  |  Accepted: 2023-02-13  |  Published: 2023-03-30

Title

Factors determining dropouts from higher education institutions


Abstract

Based on the experience of Lithuanian and foreign researchers and practitioners, the article theoretically justifies the reasons for dropping out of studies and provides options for reducing them. The purpose of the study was to identify the factors that determine dropout and their relationship with students’ attitude towards studies. Research methods: a quantitative method (questionnaire survey) was used to investigate students’ attitudes toward the reasons for withdrawing from their studies; a statistical analysis method was used to process the data collected during the study. Using the Student’s t criterion, indicators and differences in attitudes towards the factors determining withdrawal from studies were examined and compared in two groups of subjects: 1) students who had never thought about dropping out of their studies; 2) students who had thought about dropping out of their studies at least once. The results of the study will have practical implications for the possibilities of improving the quality of organising the study process in higher education by reducing the number of students who intend to discontinue their studies.


Keywords

factors influencing withdrawal from studies, higher education studies, students, attitude to studies


JEL classifications

A20 , E02


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1059


DOI


Pages

151-169


Funding


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Samašonok, Kristina
Vilniaus Kolegija / Higher Education Institution, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.viko.lt
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Kamienas, Eimantas
Vilniaus Kolegija / Higher Education Institution, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.viko.lt
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Juškevičienė, Agnė
Vilniaus Kolegija / Higher Education Institution, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.viko.lt
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

10


Number

3


Issue date

March 2023


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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