Recommendation
Departments need to employ personable, caring faculty as well as satisfied, influential student ambassadors to effectively promote the department and recruit prospective students.
Supporting References
What’s to keep you from dropping out?’ — Student Immigration into and within Engineering
“Industrial Engineering: Why Students Come and What Makes Them Stay?
Achieving Parity of the Sexes at the Undergraduate Level: A Study of Success
‘Inviteful’ Engineering: Student Perceptions of Industrial Engineering
A Study of Gender Parity: Department Culture from the Students’ Perspective