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Descriptive, retrospective, longitudinal study; which performs the description of some characteristics of the graduates of the postgraduate programs in the period from 1990 to 2014 and their classification according to the official knowledge areas of the University of Panama. The population was all graduates of the postgraduate programs, offered by the academic units and registered in the official archives of the University of Panama, supplied by the Department of Planning and University Evaluation.
Results and Discussion: The areas of knowledge approved at the University of Panama are four: Economic and Administrative Sciences; Health Sciences; Social, Humanistic and Cultural Sciences; Natural, Exact Sciences and Technology. With the inclusion of all academic units according to their disciplinary field in research, postgraduate studies and degree.
The Vice-rectorate for Research and Postgraduate Studies, in 25 years with the development of postgraduate programs, has achieved a total of 41,969 graduates, Outstanding with 91,6% graduates of programs developed in University City, of which 43,7% in the period 1990 to 2000, 14,9% in the period from 2001 to 2006 and 33% from 2007 to 2014, most of them female. When classified by areas of knowledge established in the University of Panama, we observe a greater percentage (74,4%) of the area of ??Social, Humanistic and Cultural Sciences. Followed by 11,5% of the area of ??Economic and Administrative Sciences, 8,7% of the area of ??Health Sciences and 5,4% of the area of ??Natural, Exact Sciences and Technology.