Completion Rate on Informatic Studies- Prague University of Economics and Business

Abstract

In 2019, the Czech society overcame a regular decrease in the number of university applicants, where the number of teenage potential applicants reached its minimum and began to go up again the following year. However, even this fact did not ease the pressure on rational education spendings. This naturally leads to an increasing need to monitor the success rate of studies. In this paper, we analyze the data of time series starting in 2010, which contain information about students of full-time and distance learning study programs at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of Prague University of Economics and Business. We evaluated the data, using the standard functions of MS Excel, SPSS software package and R product. The results of our analysis show that the total “Completion Rate” in informatics study programs ranges between 75.50% and 40.29%. The average length of successful studies is between 5.69 and 4.58 semesters in study programs for which students pay tuition fees. The median of the duration of successful studies is between 4 and 6 semesters. On the other hand, dropouts study between 2.673 and 3.90 semesters. The median is between 2 and 3 semesters.