Abstract

PEREZ PULIDO, Ignacio  and  GOMEZ LOPEZ, Luis Felipe. Career Choice Strategies and Pathways to College. Educ. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.1, pp.9-29.  Epub May 20, 2021. ISSN 0123-1294.  https://doi.org/10.5294/educ.2021.24.1.1.

The research seeks to identify a group of students’ strategies for joining an undergraduate program at a Mexican public university. We carried it out from a qualitative approach through twelve in-depth interviews with students of Medicine, Nursing, and Livestock Systems Engineering. The information was interpreted using Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus, field, and capital categories. The analysis identified how the interest in enrolling in an undergraduate program arises, four pathways to college (early choice, assessment of possibilities, poorly informed late choice, and change of aspiration), and a variant (doing paperwork again). Therefore, going to college results from a dialectical process between the students’ subjectivities (capital and habitus) and the university’s rules and conditions.

Keywords : Access to education; access to higher education; occupational choice; higher education; career guidance; counselling.

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