Table 3.

Students at risk of drop-out

Faculty	Students registered year I 2009	Students registered year II 2010	Silent students*	% “silent students” *
Medicine	40	29	11	28%
Social and political science	43	26	17	40%
Science of production	115	93	22	19%
Economic science	180	145	35	19%
Nursing and obstetrics	46	36	10	22%

Notes:

^*“Silent student” means a student who is not active, has not registered for the following year or does not attend lessons, does not sit examinations, and will presumably leave the course. Modified from authors’ elaboration from university dataset.²³,²⁴