Incidence of the socioeconomic factor in the choice of university careers

Abstract

One of the most important decisions of people is the choice for a professional career, which will allow them to develop professionally but also involves social spheres such as personal satisfaction, social relationships and economic support. These choices are influenced by different social, family and emotional factors, but it is the socioeconomic that determines the choice. Most of them are university entrants who are economically dependent on their families or guardians, adapting to their reality. The present investigation has wanted to determine the influence of the socioeconomic factor in the choice of a professional career and in reference to its vocational orientation, motivation, satisfaction and economic benefit. The methodology used is quantitative correlational, using the survey as a technique for data collection, the population consisted of 100 students from two university careers of the Faculty of Education and Engineering of the Catholic University of Trujillo – Perú. The authors who have been cited in the present investigation such as Bravo and Vergara (2018) and Robles and Zayas (2009) have made it possible to emphasize the conceptual definitions of the variables, the results show that a high percentage of students choose their careers based on of their socioeconomic reality, it was also observed that there is no vocational accompaniment from the school stage. It has been verified that socioeconomic factors are the determining cause in the choice of career, since industrial engineering students have better economic conditions, better types of housing and their location.