Aplicación de análisis de componentes principales a calificaciones de los graduados de Administración de Empresas de UNIMINUTO en Girardot

Abstract

In search of making assertive decisions regarding the results and qualifications of the students in the academic development of the different training areas of the Business Administration program of the Minuto de Dios University, Girardot headquarters, this document presents a preliminary categorization of the qualifications obtained by graduates between 2015 and 2020, analyzing the correlations between them. The Principal Component Analysis applied allowed the dimensionality to be reduced from 6 to 2, accumulating 73.5% of the variance in its first two components. The variables that contributed the most to the first main component were Administration and Organizations, Economics, Research, Finance and Mathematics, while Marketing was the variable that contributed the most to the second main component. The Cluster Analysis facilitated that the 128 graduates were divided into two large groups, the first one consisting of the 38 professionals with the most outstanding results, while the remaining 90 remained in the second group. Identifying the areas that are not properly aligned, which may be the input for decision-making in the corrective or improvement plans of the program. The union of these two multivariate analysis techniques proved to be an effective technique for doing preliminary categorization.