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Goal 04

Reduce dropout rates and support timely student career progression

P1 Principle 1

Teaching and student community

Responsibilites

Policy

Deputy Rector for Education

Student Delegate

Management

Education and PhD programme Division

Student Services Division

Campus

Actions

Expand, improve and innovate guidance for freshmen to prevent dropouts
Improve the programme catalogue and global teaching organisation to make career progression easier
Establish a student career monitoring system to timely recognise and effectively support students experiencing difficulties, by means of ad hoc measures and artificial intelligence predictive tools
Expand tutoring activities for students who, at the beginning of their career, experience learning difficulties in relation to certain subjects or skills
Adopt teaching tools that facilitate learning for non-attending and working students
Enhance and promote part-time plans

F.22 PERCENTAGE OF FIRST-YEAR DROPOUTS

METRICS: Number of non-enrolments (dropouts) and transfers to other universities within the first year of study against total number of students enrolled in the cohort of a.y. t/t+1.

Source: University Data Warehouse

2018/19

10.2%
2019/20

9.3%
2020/21

10.3%
2021/22

12.0%
2022/23

10.9%
2024 target

<10%

F.05 CONTINUATIONS WITH >39 CFU CREDITS OBTAINED IN THE FIRST YEAR

METRICS: Percentage of students enrolled in the cohort who enrol in the second year having obtained at least 40 CFU credits by the end of the first academic year.

Source: University Data Warehouse

2018/19

72.2%
2019/20

74.2%
2020/21

71.6%
2021/22

70.3%
2022/23

71.7%
2024 target

>74%

ID.02 PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS “OUTSIDE PRESCRIBED TIME

METRICS: Number of students « outside prescribed time » (who have not com pleted university exams within set time period) against total number of students.

Source: University Data Warehouse

2019/20

22.1%
2020/21

20.0%
2021/22

19.5%
2022/23

21.1%
2023/24

21.4%
2024 target

≤18%

SDGs

Goal 4: Quality education
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

NRRP

Digitalisation, innovation, competitiveness, culture and tourism
Education and research
Inclusion and cohesion

Concerns:

Student community
Teaching and Research Staff