A new perspective of students allocation satisfaction in engineering courses in Portugal

Abstract

This work aims at describing and characterizing students allocation satisfaction in the Portuguese public higher education system through the students' point of view, namely in the academic engineering programs. A complementary ratio is defined that allows the comparison with the ratio provided by the Portuguese Education Ministry through the Institutions' point of view. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed. Through cluster analysis it was possible to identify and characterize the new ratio and to make a comparison with the existing one.