Abstract—Educational organizations are one of the important parts of our society and playing a vital role for
growth and development of any nation.
Data Mining is an
emerging technique with the help of this one can efficiently
learn with historical data and use that knowledge for predicting
future behavior of concern areas. Growth of current education
system is surely enhanced if data mining has been adopted as a
futuristic strategic management tool. The Data Mining tool is
able to facilitate better resource utilization in terms of student
performance, course development and finally the development
of nation's education related standards. In this paper a student
data from a community college database has been taken and
various classification approaches have been performed and a
comparative analysis has been done. In this research work
Support Vector Machines (SVM) are established as a best
classifier with maximum accuracy and minimum root mean
square error (RMSE). The study also includes a comparative
analysis of all Support Vector Machine Kernel types and in this
the Radial Basis Kernel is identified as a best choice for Support
Vector Machine. A Decision tree approach is proposed which
may be taken as an important basis of selection of student
during any course program. The paper is aimed to develop a
faith on Data Mining techniques so that present education and
business system may adopt this as a strategic management tool.