ABSTRACT
The recommendations of physical and social isolation established by the World Health Organization-WHO to face the COVID-19 pandemic implied the physical closure of establishments and institutions, including educational institutions. UNESCO reported a world crisis in education, in which 91% of students worldwide were deprived of their right to education. This article seeks to analyze the effects of migration to virtual education on architecture students in Colombia and El Salvador. The methodology used was a virtual survey administered to 293 students of the Universidad de la Costa (Colombia) and 142 students of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (El Salvador). From the results, it is possible to affirm that, although the virtual modality has meant a great opportunity to transcend to new stages of university teaching, the economic limitations for most students in Latin America, particularly in the cases analyzed, as well as the digital gap that exists in certain areas, posed and continue to pose a profound challenge for the educational system in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. © The author;licensee Universidad de la Costa - CUC