Metodología para la Clasificación Socioeconómica de los Estudiantes de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional y su Incidencia en la Asignación de Becas y Cobro de Aranceles

Abstract

In Ecuador, the State guarantees free public education up to the third level, in this context, the Council of Higher Education (CES, in Spanish) issues the REGULATION TO ENSURE THE COMPLIANCE OF THE LIBERTY OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION, which is mandatory and contains the standard for the allocation of scholarships and the collection of fees when a student has lost the gratuity of public education. Thus, in this project has defined a methodology for the socio-economic stratification of the National Polytechnic School’s Students (EPN, in Spanish), to achieve this objective, the Principal Component Analysis Categorical (ACPC) and Cluster K-Means are used to define a socio-economic index and their strata, in such a way that each student belongs to one of them. With this and using the automatic classification techniques: Classification Trees, Multiclass Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machines is assigned to new students in each of the strata previously established by the index.