Why Students leave: the problem of high university dropout rates

The study examines the phenomenon of students who leave the universities without completing their qualifications. The assumption is that university students do not drop out. They withdraw from their studies for numerous reasons: personal, social, economic, cultural, political and others. They take up jobs, join the army, get married, take a year off, but they often either return to their studies via contact-mode institutions or via distance education, and transfer their accumulated credits to the institution where they re-register.