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GONZALEZ-VELAZQUEZ, M. S.; LARA-BARRON, A. M.; PINEDA-OLVERA, J.  y  CRESPO-KNOPFLER, S.. Nursing student's enrollment profile, Iztacala and Zaragoza Superior Studies Faculties, UNAM. Enferm. univ [online]. 2014, vol.11, n.1, pp.11-18. ISSN 2395-8421.

Introduction: The University has as one of its tasks to better know the profiles and trajectories of  students, so that supporting innovative and functional policies can be designed and implemented. Objective: To analyze the profile of students enrolling into the Nursing Undergraduate System at the Iztacala and Zaragoza Superior Studies Faculty. Method: Basic-descriptive study with freshmen students of the 2011-I generation of the Nursing Bachelors Degree program at the FES Zaragoza and Iztacala. the population was 600 alumni. A questionnaire was used to gather data. the instrument reliability was equivalent to a 0.875 Cronbach Alpha score. A SPSS® database was created and data were analyzed through descriptive statistics. Results: The 49% of the students came from the "automatic pass" format. The enrollment grade point average went from 8.1 to 9.0. For the 61% of the students, nursing was their first choice of major. The socioeconomic level of the students was low. The 76% of the students obtained a grade point average between 8.0 and 10.0 during all their freshman year. Discussion: Unlike other careers at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Nursing accepts almost 50% of the prospects from external schools, situation which does not occur in other careers. Although the majority of students who entered have a low social-economical level, they have other favorable characteristics for their school trajectory such as a good grade point average and that they were accepted in the career that they chose.

Palabras llave : Enrollment profile; Academic development; Major selection; Origin-school; Mexico.

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