. College students in Latin America and Europe consider higher education institutions as a desirable and necessary piece in their life trajectories. From a critical perspective, they expect education offered in such spaces to be of quality and free. The objective of this paper is to present how university students from four countries (Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Spain) define quality in education. Fieldwork for this qualitative study used natural semantic networks on a sample of 350 students (n = 350) in four countries (Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Spain). Seventy students were sampled in each Latin American country while 140 subjects participated in Spain. Research was carried out in Chile in April of 2012 (Universidad de Chile), in Mexico in May of 2014 (UADEC-Coahuila), Argentina in October of 2014 (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) and in Spain in April of the 2015 (Universidad de Salamanca). Results show that for college students in these four countries quality in education: �Is public education, as a right that transmits knowledge through the teaching-learning process, in which the main actors are the teachers and students. The process is characterized by hard work, that produces (or should produce) equity, equality and inclusion�.

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