Academic Trajectories is an initiative of the Universitat de València to better support and accompany the trajectories of students, a commitment to know more about these trajectories, since they are not uniform or pass in a similar way.

To carry out this initiative, Professor Alícia Villar is working in collaboration with the Information and Promotion Service for Students (Sedi) to promote study and intervention actions to improve student trajectories. It is an initiative that depends on the Vice-Principal of Studies and Language Policy. 

It should be borne in mind that trajectories are not always adjusted to the time and performance expected institutionally. From studies that have been done, four types of trajectories are especially identified:

• Trajectories of dislocation in the incorporation. In terms of academic trajectory, feeling "located" can be used to refer to a person who perceives that he is in the place where he wants to be, that is, studying the degree he has chosen or when he has a good assessment of the academic trajectory. On the other hand, when expressed in terms of "dislocation" the perception is the opposite or not so well valued. This dislocation can be caused by several reasons, whether academic or extracurricular.
• Relocation trajectories. Relocations can lead to a trajectory of "relocation", that is, to decide to change degrees and start a new trajectory in another degree, either in the same university or in a different one.
• Trajectories of prolongation of the studies. There are degrees in which the time to graduate is longer than in others. In this extension of the years to finish the degree, academic reasons and others that are not directly linked to the contents of the degree intervene. There are also differences between branches of knowledge.
• Trajectories of abandonment. Dropping out of university studies has often been confused with a relocation of studies, because when a degree is abandoned, the university is not always left, but part of the cases corresponds to a change of studies or academic relocation.