Assigning students to academic majors

Hussein M. Saber and Jay B. Ghosh

Omega, 2001, vol. 29, issue 6, 513-523

Abstract: We address here the problem of assigning undergraduate students to academic major areas at a Middle-Eastern business school, which is quite different from what one usually faces in the West. Our formulation considers the student's preference in the light of his/her performance in certain bellwether courses and various practical constraints in arriving at an initial solution. We present a linear program that maximizes the overall value of the assignments to the students as well as the academic units concerned. We show through a real example how this approach has been implemented as one step in the major-assignment process.

Keywords: Education; Modeling; Mathematical; programming; Application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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