Optimizing Academic Pathways with AI: A Personalized Approach to University Advising and Course Selection
Research focus
- AI-driven analysis of students' skill gaps provides a personalized development roadmap, enhancing career preparedness.
- Integration with real-time labor market data ensures recommendations remain relevant to current and future employment trends.
- Offers insights into potential academic and career trajectories based on comprehensive personal and academic data analysis.
- Utilizes advanced AI algorithms to match students with universities and majors, considering evolving industry demands.
- Empowers students with confidence in their decision-making by providing clarity on their suited educational and career paths.
Abstract
The increasing complexity of different academic programs, along with the diversity of the students’ backgrounds requires an automated and innovative approach to help enhance the academic advising process.
To ensure effective planning, the traditional advising methods are no longer sufficient. These methods are limited and cannot provide personalized guidance for each student.
This will certainly lead to inadequate course selections and possible extended degree completion times. Our research proposed an Artificial Intelligent (AI) driven system that helps optimize the student academic pathways through customized course recommendations and dynamic degree planning. The outcome of the system is a tailored plan specific to individual student profiles, that takes into consideration the academic history, interests, and career goals. AI can analyze extensive academic data and identify patterns and then predict the best pathways that align with students' background, their objectives, and the job market.
The development process, from integrating the AI model to the implementation of a user interface, shows how effectiveness is AI, and demonstrates the system's impact on informed decision-making, degree completion efficiency, and planning satisfaction. This demonstrates the potential of AI in revolutionizing academic advising and degree planning, enhancing educational outcomes and experiences by providing data-driven, personalized guidance.
