Forecasting Undergraduate Majors: A Natural Language Approach

• Main Authors: David Lang (Author), Alex Wang (Author), Nathan Dalal (Author), Andreas Paepcke (Author), Mitchell L. Stevens (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Committing to a major is a fateful step in an undergraduate education, yet the relationship between courses taken early in an academic career and ultimate major issuance remains little studied at scale. Using transcript data capturing the academic careers of 26,892 undergraduates enrolled at a priva...