What Factors Affect Academic Performance in an Online Technology Management Bachelors Program?

This paper explores the factors that correlate to the length of time it takes an undergraduate student to complete a Technology Management bachelors program. Three independent variables are identified in this paper; the age of the student, the gender of the student, and the total number of credit hours that the student transferred into the program from other higher education institutions. The dependent variable is binary, and reflects whether a student was able to complete their degree within three years of entering the program. A logit model is used to analyze the data. We find that gender had no statistically significant relationship with the odds that a student will graduate within three years, while the age of the student is negatively correlated with the dependent variable and the total number of transfer credits is positively correlated with the dependent variable. The former is significant at the 10% level, while the latter is significant at the 5% level.