College-Major-Recommender

Many high school students run into a dilemma upon graduation. They don’t know where to even begin when trying to select a college major.
And it is not just graduating high school students; according to the National Center for Education Studies, 30% of college students in
undergraduate programs had changed their major at least once and 10% of undergraduate students changed their major two or more times.

In order to help these student make better, well informed decisions, our group has set out to create a tool to aid in this decision making
process.

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• Kai-Duan Chang
• Li-Ci Chuang
• Sri Manogna Gurijala
• Ryan Egbert
• Meghan Harris

The app contains both descriptive and predictive analysis.

On the first two pages (Explore and Compare), the user can see many different charts and graphs that explain what is going on with the data. A user can compare the rates between salary and employment rate, for example.

Another thing the user will be able to do is receive a recommendation for which college major category they should select. This is followed up by a list of majors in that category for the user to select from.

https://regbert.shinyapps.io/college-major-recommender/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2F5gqk18QQ

With our Shiny app, students have a guide that helps them choose a college major based on their actual
interests. While we can’t say for a fact that our Shiny app rivals the combined 1.8 billion google results from
“What should my major be?”, we firmly believe our project is a great starting place in tackling this challenging
question.

We based our Shiny app on Zimin Luo’s and Lasha Gochiashvili’s project “Graduate Employment in
Singapore” to build our UI from. We really thought their GUI design was perfect for how we wanted our
interface to be for our project.