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Forecasting Admissions in
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, CIIT, Islamabad
Erum Rehman and Dr. Noor. M. Larik
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DOI:10.17265/2328-224X/2015.12.003
The increasing competition for admissions in Higher Education Institutes for admissions has become a problem for Higher Education Institutes for making adequate policies for decision making. The COMSATS Institute of Information Technology has eight campuses all over the country and headquarters in Islamabad, Pakistan. Due to its popularity and ranking first in the country as institute of science and technology and sixth in all general universities of country. There has been in general significant increase of the students for admissions. Thus it requires future demand for admissions to make adequate policies for students as well as faculty requirement. In this article, an attempt has been made to forecast admissions of students particularly in main campus located in Islamabad by using models such as Holts linear trend model, simple linear regression model and simple linear model, it has been concluded that simple linear regression model gives us more accurate results as compared to others.
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