| Sumario: | “In the majority of Latin American countries during the year 2001, a 43% of students deserted in higher education and a 60% of them had to quit studying because they had to look for a job and support themselves and their families as well” (Ciudad-Universitaria.com) Nowadays, studying a major in higher education is such essential; the majority of people desire to get a Bachelor degree in order to be well-prepared. Unfortunately, not all of the higher education students have the possibility to conclude their majors. Some of these students need to carry out different labour activities for coping with their needs and some others have to forsake the major they are coursing in order to work in a full-time schedule; as a consequence, desertion is as worriedly as those cases in which people who never had the opportunity to start a bachelor degree, since in both cases students do not get the knowledge to develop a profession. Throughout the country, there exists a certain amount of universities which offer a contingency to have access to them in a determined period of time. Due to such opportunity, during the year 2004, it was counted up about 370.000 new registrations to apply to study in Salvadorian Universities; this number is the same as the 2.31% of the total population of our country. What is alarming is not the low amount of pupils, but the scarce percentage of the schooling rate. According to the MINED only the 4.7% of higher education students attended classes regularly, and the 95.3% of students hardly ever attended classes.
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