Project Title: Automated Module Selection Advisor System
Student: Kun Yuan
Course: MSc Information Technology

Abstract:
According to the Daily Mail news published in 30 March 2012 (Clark, 2012), 
some 22% of starters failed to finish the courses they began, and the ratio 
was rising to more than half at some Universities. It also shows that the 
number of students dropping out during first 12 month of their degree is 
all-time high. It means a large number of freshmen do not pass their first 
year modules. Althouhg the reasons for this phenomenon are various and 
complicated, insufficient course advising is an important contributing factor. 
The main purpose of this dissertation is to develop a powerful module selection 
advisor system that can address the problems faced by students and provide 
reasonable advices based on the different preferences and requirements of students 
during the module selection porcess. The system targets to the PGT (postgraduate 
taught) students in School of Computer Science, the University of Nottingham. 
This dissertation may be of interest to people who want to do a system, specially 
a kind of course selection advisor system.