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    INTERFACES Copytight © 1980, The Instiute of Management Sciences Vol. 10. No.2. Anil 1980 '0092-2102/80/1002/0052801.25 STUDENT FLOW IN A UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT: RESULTS OF A MARKOV ANALYSIS E. Wailand Bessent and Authella M. Bessent ‘The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 [AusrRAcT. Most ofthe applications of Management Science reported inthe literature Ihave been macroanaytic sae equring mative expenditures of time nd money, rather ‘han useful applications for small systems involving litle effort and cost. One such sppica tion was made at the University departmental level in which 2 Markov analysis was employed to study the progression of doctoral students 1 completion (with periods of ‘onenollment accounted fo) to determine ifthe number ofcurent admissions Was eret- ing an undesirable future disertationoverioad for supervising professors. The department ‘unanimously approved the ecommendation based onthe study. Problems of impementa- ment and data gathering and (2) presenting the results ofthe analysis to department mem- ber In university departments which strive to maintain high quality graduate pro- ‘grams, the availability of qualified professors to supervise dissertation production is a scarce resource whith can be overeatended easily before the problem is detected ‘The problem arises because of the lag between the time students are admitted and the time they are advanced to candidacy, which is the first point requiring the formal appointment of a dissertation supervisor. ‘The purpose of this paper is to present an easily implemented procedure for modeling the student flow system so that admission policy can be set to maintain control of faculty load and number of graduates at desired levels. While the proce-

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