Submission Date
4-23-2015
Document Type
Paper
Department
Business & Economics
Second Department
Mathematics
Adviser
Jennifer VanGilder
Second Adviser
Nicholas Scoville
Committee Member
Jennifer VanGilder
Committee Member
Nicholas Scoville
Committee Member
Paul Stern
Department Chair
Jennifer VanGilder
Department Chair
April Kontostathis
External Reviewer
John Robst
Distinguished Honors
This paper has met the requirements for Distinguished Honors
Project Description
Producing more graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), as well as ensuring students complete college in a timely manner are both areas of national public policy interest. In order to improve these two outcomes, it is imperative to understand what factors lead undergraduate students to persist in, and ultimately graduate with STEM degrees. This paper uses data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, provided by The National Center of Education Statistics, to model the time to baccalaureate degree among STEM majors using a Cox proportional hazard model.
Recommended Citation
Acton, Riley K., "Characteristics of STEM Success: A Survival Analysis Model of Factors Influencing Time to Graduation Among Undergraduate STEM Majors" (2015). Business and Economics Honors Papers. 1.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/bus_econ_hon/1
Included in
Applied Statistics Commons, Econometrics Commons, Education Economics Commons, Labor Economics Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons, Survival Analysis Commons
