The paper presents reasons why students from the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena often discontinued their education in the first half of the 19th century. During this period, they received scholarships from a fund that had been established by Emperor Joseph II in 1785, and attended various educational institutions across the Hungarian part of Habsburg Monarchy, mainly in present-day Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia. Considering that almost every third one of them at some point ceased his studies without completing them, this paper presents the reasons for this and offers case studies. Furthermore, it questions the consequences of these suspensions on Bosna Srebrena by establishing whether or not students later became involved in pastoral activities.