Aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), this study examines how personal factors, academic integration, and institutional support relate to students’ intention to persist in private higher education. Using a cross-sectional online survey, composite scores were computed for validated constructs and entered simultaneously into a single multiple linear regression model to estimate each dimension’s unique association with intention to persist. The overall model explained a substantial share of variance in persistence intentions (adjusted R2 = 0.599). Academic integration showed the largest unique association, institutional support contributed a smaller additional association, and personal factors did not retain a unique association once overlap among constructs was taken into account. Given the cross-sectional, self-report design and single-institution sample, the findings are interpreted as conditional associations within this context, informing retention strategies that strengthen sustainable educational ecosystems as private higher education expands in Latin America.
Salinas et al. (Fri,) studied this question.