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A programming model for student enrolment planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

L. H. Campbell
L. H. Campbell
Affiliation:
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
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Abstract

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The problem of planning the annual intakes to a university course, in which there are capacity constraints on the total enrolment, so as to produce a steady transition into an eventual no-growth situation is formulated as a linear program. The special structure of the problem is exploited to find a particular, optimal solution and to show that the addition of integrality constraints on the intakes poses no additional difficulty. The usefulness of the proposed methods is illustrated with an example from the University of Adelaide.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , June 1975 , pp. 30 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1975

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