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The students’ academic failure and the delay in obtaining their final degree are a significant issue for the Italian universities and their stakeholders. Based on indicators proposed by the Italian Ministry of University, the Italian universities are awarded a financial incentive if they reduce the students’ attrition and failure. In this paper we analyze the students’ careers performance using: (1) aggregate data; (2) individual data. The first compares the performances of the Italian universities using the measures and the indicators proposed by the Ministry. The second analyzes the students’ careers through an indicator based on credit earned by each student in seven academic years. The primary goal of this paper is to highlight elements that can be used by the policy makers to improve the careers of the university students.
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The article is the result of the productive collaboration among the authors. In particular, paragraph 1 can be ascribed to Vincenza Capursi, paragraph 2 can be ascribed to Antonella Plaia, paragraph 3 can be ascribed to Giovanni Boscaino, and paragraphs 4 can be ascribed to Massimo Attanasio.
This paper has been supported from Italian Ministerial grant PRIN 2008 “Measures, statistical models and indicators for the assessment of the University System”, n. 2008BWXSLH
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Attanasio, M., Boscaino, G., Capursi, V., Plaia, A. (2013). Can the Students’ Career be Helpful in Predicting an Increase in Universities Income?. In: Giudici, P., Ingrassia, S., Vichi, M. (eds) Statistical Models for Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00032-9_2
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