Externalities generated by virtual education in the academic performance of students of the faculty of economics (UNSAAC – 2022)

The general objective of this research is to determine how the externalities generated by virtual education are related to the academic performance of the students of the Faculty of Economics (Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco) in the year 2022, using a quantitative approach as methodology, based on a non-experimental design and with a descriptive correlational scope. The subjects of the study were 252 economics students, and the sampling was simple random. The data collection techniques were the virtual survey by Google Forms. To identify how the externalities generated by virtual education are related to academic performance and whether they have a significant effect on the academic performance of students, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was applied, since the study sample is greater than 50 and the significance results are 0.000 < 0.05 for each indicator, therefore, we worked with the Rho-Spearman statistic, using SPSS version 26, a p-value of 0.001 lower than 0.05 was obtained. Concluding that there is a significant relationship between the externalities generated by virtual education and the academic performance of the students of Economics - UNSAAC in the year 2022. In addition, it was identified that the social and economic externalities generated by virtual education that are significant in academic performance are the study environment, mental health, resilience, quality of internet connection, time savings, electricity costs, student internet service and investment in computer equipment.