Dropout stories of Andalusian university students Gijón Puerta, José Gijón, Meriem K. García Sempere, Pablo José Lizarte Simón, Emilio Jesús Dropout Higher education Concept mapping Narrative methodology Biographical method RDI European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014-2020. Junta de Andalucía. Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science. Reference: B-SEJ-516-UGR18. “Stories of dropout. Biographical-narrative approach to academic dropout in Andalusian universities. Multi-causal analysis and prevention proposals.” The abandonment of university studies is a problem that affects the balance and correct organization of university systems throughout the world and that has undesirable personal consequences in advanced societies. Dropping out of school has a multidimensional explanation. Among the causes, associated with each other, that originate it, the following factors stand out: psychological, social, economic, psycho-pedagogical, institutional, and didactic. Studying how all these dimensions act and relate to each other in specific cases of people who drop out of Higher Education, helps us to better understand the phenomenon and to develop prevention measures in university institutions. This text presents the results of biographical-narrative research carried out among the student population in a situation of abandonment of the universities of Andalusia that has allowed us to recover 22 stories of abandonment carried out by as many exstudents who were enrolled in any of the nine universities. Andalusians publish in any of the different university degree studies. The biographical texts have been subjected to narrative analysis to achieve personal exemplifications and characterize paradigmatic cases of relationship between the dimensions of the problem, using concept mapping to present the outcomes. 2023-06-02T08:27:51Z 2023-06-02T08:27:51Z 2023-04-14 journal article Gijón J, Gijón MK, García P and Lizarte EJ (2023) Dropout stories of Andalusian university students. Front. Educ. 8:1130194. [doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1130194] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/82165 10.3389/feduc.2023.1130194 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Frontiers Media