El Siglo reports that in the past four years the UASD only graduated 15% of the students that were admitted. In the past four years only 14,818 students graduated. During that period, the average enrollment of the university was 97,741. In the past ten years, the university has only graduated 44,359. The graduates were: 16,874 from the School of Humanities; 9,760 from the School of Economic and Social Sciences; 7,160 from the School of Health Sciences; 4,146 from the School of Engineering and Architecture; 4,049 from the School of Judicial and Political Sciences 923 from the School of Sciences and 82 from the School of Agronomy. Rector Miguel Rosado said that the low graduation level is due to the chaos that students find in the university. Tirso Mejia Ricart said student desertion is due to the lack of short technical careers that are more in line with the income needs of the students. UASD statistics also show that only 8% of those that enter public school system graduate from high school.
