Chief Engineering Analytics Officer Penn State College of Engineering University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Session Abstract: This study uses the survival analysis to track students during the first six years of their undergraduate studies. The sample of the study covers students from six universities. The survival analysis models the time-to-dropout data and identifies the dropout changes over time. The study is designed to answer these questions: (1) How is the student attrition distributed during the six years? (2) What is the estimated retention probability by semester? (3) What are the factors contributing to student attrition? and (4) Do the factors change at particular points during the six years of undergraduate studies?
Keywords: survival analysis, student retention, patterns of student attrition
Contributing Authors: Jing Zhao – Director of Institutional Research, Eastern University; Charles Deng – Research Associate, Florida A&M University; Annie Ye Ji – Associate Director of Institutional Research, Kean University; Eric Wang – Institutional Research Analyst III, University of Alabama; Jennifer Wu – Chief Engineering Analytics Officer, Penn State College of Engineering
