Strategic decision support system based Hybrid models for colleges enrollment capacity planning: Design & implementation

This paper proposes a Hybrid Strategic Decision Support System (H-SDSS) for colleges’ enrollment capacity planning. Three hybrid subsystems are combined for executing the task of decision making processes. The system includes students’ track specified model, colleges’ enrollment model and students’ capacity forecast model. Data mining knowledge based rules and goal programming based methods are used for building the system. This H-SDSS is expected to help university decision makers for solving problems related to strategic decisions for enhancing university students’ admission and enrollment capacity planning to satisfy future of higher educational demands as well as labor market needs.