“…In other words, it is understood that the more academic periods a student spends in higher education, the greater the investment made, and consequently in the event of the student dropping out, the higher the investment will be if the student decides to interrupt the process due to the influence of individual variables, (Arias-Velandia et al, 2018;Behr et al, 2020), socioeconomics (Contreras, 2018;Palacio Sprockel et al, 2020;Schmitt et al, 2020), academics (Guzmán, et al, 2020;Heidrich et al, 2018) and institutional variables (Armstrong et al, 2018;Choi and Kim, 2018), as well as the higher the stranded cost will be for the student or the student's family (Larroucau, 2016;Laaser, 2018). In addition, by resorting to credits originating in public policies, the dropout student and his or her family will incur interest payments, which represents an increase in these costs (Moreno et al, 2019).…”