UPTC Internal Student Transfers for the First Semester of 2019

UPTC (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia) records of students who transferred internally between academic programs in the first semester of 2019. The dataset includes columns for student demographics, previous and new faculties and programs, and campus information. It is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze gender distribution (SEXO) in student transfers between faculties (FACULTAD_ANTERIOR, FACULTAD_NUEVA).
• Identify the most common program transitions (PROGRAMA_ANTERIOR, PROGRAMA_NUEVO) within the university.
• Study the relationship between student age (calculated from FECHA_NACIMIENTO) and transfer patterns to specific programs.
• Map internal student flows between campuses using SEDE_ANTERIOR and NOMBRE_SEDE columns.

Strengths

• Includes specific temporal coverage for the first semester of 2019.
• Provides detailed columns for both origin and destination of student transfers (e.g., FACULTAD_ANTERIOR, PROGRAMA_NUEVO).
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• License information is unknown, which may restrict certain uses.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

First semester of 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 18:58:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, specifically the UPTC university system.