Análise da Evasão no Ensino Superior e suas Motivações: Um Estudo de Caso em um Curso de Sistemas de Informação

The growth in the number of places in Brazilian higher education was of great benefit to the country, bypassing the elitist model that marked the beginning of academic activities in Brazil. However, the social and economic impact can be minimized by the occurrence of the evasion phenomenon. We highlight the investments in science, technology and innovation that has higher education as its great ally, especially in what refers to technology courses. In this sense, this work performs an analysis of the evasion phenomenon in a course of Information Systems of a public institution under the prism of several previous works on the subject, and with new contributions of the authors. The results bring a discussion about the use of evasion rates and use a categorization of evasion dimensions, adapted from previous approaches.