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The objective of the research is to review the most recent topics about the associated determining factors related to university dropout. University abandonment is considered, by most university institutions, as a phenomenon that threatens the prospecting of education and society in general. The research is qualitative and descriptive. Based on the hermeneutics of recent works, with the determination to review what is currently being done with the main theme of the study. The type of article is for review, which, without being original, collects a series of relevant and current information on the thematic axes. The results of the study allowed us to know, identify and analyze the different causes by which the phenomenon of university dropout is activated and even, take into consideration positions from other countries which allowed us to reach relevant dissertations. The conclusions of the research, in addition to knowing the determining factors associated with attrition, also allow us to issue some recommendations to university institutions, to reduce the dropout rate and be able to counteract the social consequences that it entails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research was to perform an exploratory factorial analysis of the digital competencies questionnaire in students. A cross-sectional observational design was applied to 322 students of the Tecnológico Superior Universitario España from the 4th and 5th cycles of the Business Administration career. It was obtained that the basic assumption of the factor analysis of the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure was 0.778 and Bartlett's sphericity test had a significant value p<0.000 On the other hand, the variance of the first component was 28%, component 2 had a percentage of almost 12% as explained variance, and finally the third component had a variance percentage representation of 10%. This means that the percentage of accumulated variance of the three components was 50.5%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]