Leave or stay? The reasons behind drop-out

Abstract

In Hungary, leaving school became a significant problem. The average of dropout percent is around 40 to 50, which is almost the double of the top 15 “least likely to drop out” countries. There are a few base problems that covers most of the reasons why students leave school. They usually tend to lose their motivation, their community, friends, or they realize that in the long run, leaving school with their present skillset is more beneficial than finishing the university. While these might be an adequate way to define the fact of schoolleaving, we wanted to dig deeper and look behind these problem-groups. As you would guess it, universities already trying to reduce this number, but they need feedback from students. Our school started mentor-program, tutoring, e-learning and much more unique solution, which did help lowering the leaving students amount, but these projects could be improved. We revised these programs, rated their efficiency, likability and compared them to student’s preferences. After that, we created a ranking where studs could rate every project to create an importance list, this way the university can easily see which ones need to be rethought. Our goal is to provide a reliable source of information to the university what can be used up to improve the overall likability of these programs.