Integral formation at university? The voice of students from a private university in Merida

Higher education institutions are aware of the necessity of promoting student's integral formation and seek actions to achieve it. However, there is little awareness of how the students perceive this kind of development. To improve the possibilities of success in the attempts of achieving it, it could be important to listen to the students. This article presents research advances of a phenomenological study that seeks to explain the elements that the students link to the meaning of integral formation. The participants are five students from a private university in Merida of different majors. The results suggest that the integral formation is linked to the dimensions of the subject that it impacts, the aspects of the college life that involves and the personal and academic experiences linked to it.