The choice of university in the professional aspirations and expectations of the middle classes in Spain.
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- Damian Herrera-Cuesta (ES) UNED https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-3752
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During the last decades, higher education in the world has been undergoing reforms aimed at a new institutional framework in which this type of education is assigned a key role in economic development, while it continues to be attributed a fundamental weight as a factor of social mobility. Within the framework of these transformations, in this article we study the set of perceived objective opportunities that influence the motivation of university students when choosing a public or private university. On the one hand, we observe different levels of certainty regarding the future among university students with greater resources depending on whether they attend private or public universities, on the other, we find that meritocratic criteria operate only on students from the popular classes in access and continuation of higher education.
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