Abstract
Currently, one of the challenges of universities is attracting talent in students, researchers, and teachers. The transition from high school to college requires a student to take a succession of decisions that will shape their future. For this reason, knowledge of the motivations of the students, their family, and their personal environment, to choose a particular degree and/or university to pursue their higher studies, would allow universities to efficiently adjust their recruitment strategies. In this article, a study was developed based on a structural equation model of the access to the Spanish Public University System (SUPE), which can help with supply and demand problems, recruitment actions and policies, and other strategic decisions. This was done through an extensive survey of first-year students of Spanish universities. The results allowed us to obtain the parameters of the model, which showed that the fit between the model and the data obtained were excellent at a global level and acceptable as well in all knowledge areas. The objective of the structural model was to provide a general view of the behavior of the students when deciding the degree and university in which they are going to study, and can help in the decision making of university leaders and to understand some behaviors of the Spanish Public University System.
Highlights
The transition from High School to university is, for the student and in some cases for their families, one of the determining moments in their life
A study was developed based on a structural equation model of the access to the Spanish Public University System (SUPE), which can help with supply and demand problems, recruitment actions and policies, and other strategic decisions
It was especially important to analyze the values of GFI (Goodness of Fit Index), AGFI (Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index), BBNFI (Bentler Bonnet Normed Fit Index), BBNNFI (Bentler Bonnet Non-Normed Fit Index), and CFI (Comparative Fit Index)
Summary
The transition from High School to university is, for the student and in some cases for their families, one of the determining moments in their life. The conditions of access to university differ for each country, but in any case, each student must take a succession of decisions that will shape their future. Spanish universities as a whole have more than 300,000 new students every year. Spanish universities dedicate significant efforts and resources to compete to attract the best students. The university managers seek to make use of the tools available in this competition process: big data, academic analytics, analytic methods, statistical techniques, and predictive models improve the decision-making procedures in recruitment, in management, and in the process of teaching [3,4,5]
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