When university dropout occurs it has consequences at different societal levels – both society in a
broader sense (cf. e.g. Bound & Turner, 2011: 574), the university and the different institutional
levels within as well as the individual student are affected (cf. e.g. Ulriksen, 2010: 210).
At the individual student level dropout (at least concerning an involuntary case of dropout) is likely
to be associated with emotions of personal inadequacy/self-doubts/not belonging (cf. e.g.
Edwards & Cangemi, 1990). Furthermore, a dropout, whether it concerns a formal dropout or a
student transfer, is inevitably synonymous with a waste of personal resources, time and money
(less so, though, if the dropout has happened with the student having acquired useful skills to be
used as transfer of credits to another related subject of study or to be used subsequently on the
job market)