UPTC Student Tuition Waivers for the First Semester of 2019

Exoneración en matricula 2-2019 lists students from the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) who were exempted from tuition payment for the first semester of 2019. The dataset includes 14 columns detailing student demographics, academic programs, and the reasons for exemption. It is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of tuition waivers across socioeconomic strata (ESTRATO) and academic programs (NOMBRE_PROGRAMA).
• Profiling the demographic characteristics (SEXO, FECHA_NACIMIENTO, LUG_NACIMIENTO) of students receiving financial exemptions.
• Investigating the primary reasons for tuition exemption (NOMBRE_MOTIVO, DESCRIPCION) by faculty (NOMBRE_FACULTAD) or campus (NOMBRE_SEDE).
• Studying academic progression by correlating waiver status with the student's current semester (NRO_SEMESTRE, where '0' indicates a finished academic status).

Strengths

• Dataset provides 14 distinct columns covering demographic, academic, and administrative dimensions of tuition waivers.
• Data is structured and available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).
• The temporal scope is clearly defined for the first academic semester of 2019.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• License and author information are not provided, which may affect clarity on reuse terms.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal)

Collection Method

Likely an administrative record from the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC).

Time Range

First academic semester of 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:28:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, specifically students of the UPTC.