Abstract

Attrition is a concern of most engineering schools around the world. The engineering students drop out mainly in the first two years of their program. Predicting the student's possibility to drop out from the program would allow the university to design remedial programs and therefore prevent their drop-out in some cases. Our goal was to explore the possibility to predict the student permanence in the third semester based on her/his performance during the first semester at the engineering school additionally to her/his performance at secondary education, family income and standard admission test.