A STUDENT PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM PROTOTYPE
Issues in Information Systems · 2009
Recommendation systems have emerged as a useful e-commerce tool to assist customers in making purchases based on similarities and preferences of others.However, their potential has not been highly utilized to help in one area that could assist both professors and students -student advising.Using a recommender system has potential risks such as lower student retention if the system makes poor recommendations but it also has the potential of helping to guide potential students to a wider range of majors and courses that they may not have otherwise considered.This paper discusses a prototype recommender system for advising preapplicants on probable courses of study at a university.