Academic Self-Efficacy According to the University Selected to Study: A Comparative Study with Aspirants to Engineering Careers

Entering public universities in Peru to study engineering is a very competitive challenge, which demands that pre-university students have adequate self-efficacy and good academic performance. Therefore, this study proposes to analyze the levels of self-efficacy and academic performance according to the university to which aspiring engineering students from Lima - Peru apply. The total number of pre-university students was 161; of which 122 (75.8%) were male and 39 (24.2%) were female. Their ages ranged from 16 to 22 years (Mean = 17.66; SD = 1.31). Of these, 110 (68.3%) were from Lima (capital city of Peru) and 51 (31.7%) from the provinces. The results allowed us to conclude that students often and sometimes feel academically self-efficient; only in particular cases the perception is lower. However, academic performance turned out to be disapproving in most cases.