Academic success in universities: a comparative study in Centers of America

Abstract

The academic success of a university student is mediated and influenced by various factors, as well as by personal experience. Taking this framework into consideration, this paper describes the phases of research designed to determine the factors that influence the academic success of college students by answering the following question: How to promote academic success in college students? To this end, a justified and argued theoretical framework is shown, in which current references up to 2020 on factors associated with performance have been analyzed, to later present the procedure and research framework as well as the methods used, both qualitative and quantitative, in the context of different Centers of Academic Success in the University of America.