XI. INCIDENCIA DE LOS CRITERIOS Y ESTANDARES ESPECIFICOS DE LOS PERFILES DE EGRESO Y SUS RESULTADOS EN LOS PROCESOS DE ACREDITACIÓN DE PROGRAMAS DE PREGRADO EN CHILE

Abstract

The present work is framed within the analysis of the challenges that higher education in Latin America must face, and how it takes charge of new trends in educational policies in the world and in the region. New concepts of educational quality appear and new ways of ensuring it too. This research of qualitative type and documentary review, tried to elucidate the importance that it had for the safeguards of the levels of formative quality of different university programs in Chile, having collegiate committees of professionals who had previously defined specific guidelines and criteria for accreditation for their Graduate profiles at the time of being audited by external quality control organizations. These results were compared with those obtained in cases that did not have such regulatory frameworks. For this purpose, a multi-case study was developed where the results of accreditation of four majors in around 50 Chilean universities were compared: two of these programs had specific accreditation criteria: Law and Psychology and two of them only had criteria general, as was the case of Journalism and Social Work. The results indicated that those undergraduate programs that have specific criteria to ensure their training quality presented a better performance of years of accreditation and a greater number of programs with accreditation close to excellence.