Factors Analysis Affecting Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Student: A study on Faculty of Information Technology Students at Applied Science Private University

The analysis of students’ educational achievements at a university is beneficial for the university, society and students. This study aims to search for the various attributes related to academic student’s achievements. The subjects of the study were 3509 graduated students at the Applied Science Private University in Jordan from all department programs of the Faculty of Information Technology. The study is intended to analyze students profile and find its relation to and association with their university GPA (Grade Point Average) by selecting four main attributes related to the students: department, secondary certificate grade, secondary certificate city, and gender. Then it is intended to find the high effecting value for each attribute, and create main association rules through using data mining classifier like (Decision tree, naïve bayse and association rules). Finally, the result of this study may help current and new faculty students to predict the possible obtained GPA to control their performance and try to enhance it.