Applications of Data Mining Techniques in Higher Education

Data mining (DM) is useful for collecting and interpreting significant data from huge database. The education field offers several potential data sources for data mining applications. These applications can help both instructors and students in improving the learning process. Data mining techniques are analytical tools that can be used to extract meaningful knowledge from large datasets. This paper addresses the applications of data mining in educational institution to extract useful information from the huge data sets and providing analytical tool to view and use this information for decision making processes by taking real life examples.