Finding Bottlenecks: Predicting Student Attrition with Unsupervised Classifier

Policy makers, the public, university administrators, students and their families are concerned about low graduation rates and lengthy times to degree in higher education. The median time to graduation is six years at CSUN (1). The fouryear and the six-year graduation rates are 13% and 50%, respectively (2). With an enrollment of over 6000 undergraduate students, CoBaE is one of largest business schools in the nation. CoBaE confers the second most undergraduate degrees at CSUN (behind the College of Social and Behavioral Science), and it has three of the top ten most popular majors (Management, Finance, and Marketing) at CSUN.