A multicriteria model applied to public university: hierarchization of incentive tools as a way of avoiding scholars' evasion

Resumen

Studentsâ evasion in college level is subject of constant and incisive debates amongcompetent entities in Brazil, since it affects directly the quality of teaching and the targets ofgrowth in the country. The challenge in this case is to create and manage instruments whichare capable of guaranteeing students permanence in universities, either throughrestructuring the curricula or adopting quota schemes, financing programs, scholarships etc.This work intends to present a hierarchical scale to prioritize instruments that helpguaranteeing students permanence in universities. In order to do so, it is used a multicriteriamodel, based on data collected in an opinion research involving students of a publicuniversity. It is presented in this document the data gathered from the research, the usedmethodology, the model which was developed, the results and the consistency analysis.