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Using Data Science And Predictive Analytics To Understand 4-Year University Student Churn, Joshua Lee Whitlock
Using Data Science And Predictive Analytics To Understand 4-Year University Student Churn, Joshua Lee Whitlock
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The purpose of this study was to discover factors about first-time freshmen that began at one of the six 4-year universities in the former Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) system, transferred to any other institution after their first year, and graduated with a degree or certificate. These factors would be used with predictive models to identify these students prior to their initial departure. Thirty-four variables about students and the institutions that they attended and graduated from were used to perform principal component analysis to examine the factors involved in their decisions. A subset of 18 variables about these students in …