Estudo da evasão e tempo de permanência no Curso de Ciências Atuariais da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the evasion and the time of the completion of the course of the students enrolled in the Actuarial Science course in the period of 1993 to 2014. Considering the growing percentage of these factors in universities, these kind of analyses provide useful information for a better understanding for the decision-making process to reduce the evasion and the deadline to students conclude their university studies in Actuarial Science. The document applies descriptive statistical techniques and inferences of survival analysis to define the profile of the students and to measure the evasion and time of the completion of the course. The database has considered individual information of 620 students enrolled in the Actuarial Science course in the mentioned period, provided by the Information Technology Area (STI) of the Federal University of Ceará as of October/2014. In relation to the descriptive statistics, we noted that the male is predominant with a percentage of 68.55%. The entry age is between 18 to 24 years (54.55%) A high percentage of evasion was observed in the course, 42.9%, being the highest percentage verified in the second semester. The topics offered by the Mathematics Department are the main responsible for the indexes of disapproval in the course. In the Survival Analysis, it indicates that the covariates gender and type of curriculum, among other factors, influence the evasion and the time of the completion of the course.