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It is a fact that fashion plays an important role to select a career,
new options of careers from engineering are preferred by
students instead of traditional options; for example,
Mechatronics, Aeronautics, Automotive specializations,
Bionics, Biomedical and others are so popular. Every day, new
necessities are required in the world and it is necessary to find
the way to solve them, for that reason these new majors are
good options to students, however traditional areas are
important too. Information Technology is not the exception
because every enterprise, school, association and organization
needs computers with systems that help to solve specific
situations or to manage resources. In Mexico, Information
Technology careers are been affected for low enrollment of
students, of course private universities have suffered more this
situation than public schools [1]. In this research work are
shown the most important factors that have a real incidence to
choose an Information Technology career. The methodology
consisted in the design of a survey using seven points Likert´s
scale where potential students could express more about their
expectative, preferences and required abilities to study these
majors. The mentioned survey had three versions and each one
was validated through Cronbach’s Alpha. Data collected were
analyzed using statistical software SPSS to obtain the critical
success factors.
