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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II

The data were obtained from the information available at the Ministry of
Education (Servicio de Información de Educación Superior del Ministerio
de Educación (SIES), 2006-2015), whose digital information is available
only for the last eight years. Figure 1 shows that the academic offerings
have increased the total number of registered students, exceeding more
than five-fold the number of first year students that there were in 2007. A
difference is also seen between the offerings and first year registrations,
showing clearly that registration is not always completed or else there is
overflow. Another important data in this figure is that the total graduates
come from admissions to first year at least four years earlier for mining
technicians, five years earlier for mining engineering, and six years
earlier for mine civil engineering. Therefore, to relate the retentions we
must consider this time lag, to which must be added the actual average
graduating time, which is 18 semesters (9 years) for mine civil engineering,
13 semesters (6.5 years) for mining technicians and mining engineers –
see Table 3, with information provided by some universities (Servicio de
Información de Educación Superior del Ministerio de Educación (SIES),
2006-2015).

Table 3 - First-year dropouts and actual duration of the career

Career University First Year Actual
Dropouts Duration
(semesters)
Mine Civil Engineering U. de Atacama 12% -
U. de La Serana 12% 18.6
U. de Santiago de Chile 13% 17.1
Mining Technician U. de Antofagasta 29% -
U. de La Serana 23% 14.9
U. de Santiago de Chile 26% 12.7
IP INACAP 32% 11.1

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