International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research

Volume 8–Issue 09, 358-362, 2019, ISSN:-2319–8656

Campus Placement Analyzer: Using Supervised Machine

Learning Algorithms
Shubham Khandale Sachin Bhoite
Student, M.Sc. (Big Data Analytics) Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
MIT-WPU, Pune, Maharashtra, India MIT-WPU, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Abstract -- The main aim of every academia enthusiast is placement in a reputed MNC’s and even the reputation and every year
admission of Institute depends upon placement that it provides to their students. So, any system that will predict the placements of the
students will be a positive impact on an institute and increase strength and decreases some workload of any institute’s training and
placement office (TPO). With the help of Machine Learning techniques, the knowledge can be extracted from past placed students and
placement of upcoming students can be predicted. Data used for training is taken from the same institute for which the placement
prediction is done. Suitable data pre-processing methods are applied along with the features selections. Some Domain expertise is used
for pre-processing as well as for outliers that grab in the dataset. We have used various Machine Learning Algorithms like Logistic,
SVM, KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest and advance techniques like Bagging, Boosting and Voting Classifier and achieved 78%
in XGBoost and 78% in AdaBoost Classifier.

Keywords: Pre-processing, Feature Selection, Domain expertise, Outliers, Bagging, Boosting, SVM, KNN, Logistics

1. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays Placement plays an important role in this world
accuracy of 71.66% with tested real-life data indicates that the
full of unemployment. Even the ranking and rating of
institutes depend upon the amount of average package and system is reliable for carrying out its major objectives, which
amount of placement they are providing. is to help teachers and placement cell[2].
So basically main objective of this model is to predict whether
the student might get placement or not. Different kinds of Ajay Kumar Pal, Saurabh Pal (2013) they are predicting the
classifiers were applied i.e. Logistic Regression, SVM, placement of student after doing MCA by the three selected
Decision Tree, Random Forest, KNN, AdaBoost, Gradient classification algorithms based on Weka. The best algorithm
Boosting and XGBoost. For this all over academics of based on the placement data is Naïve Bayes Classification
students are taken under consideration. As placements activity with an accuracy of 86.15% and the total time taken to build
take place in last year of academics so last year semesters are the model is at 0 seconds. Naïve Bayes classifier has the
not taken under consideration lowest average error at 0.28 compared to others.[3]

2. RELATED WORK Syed A0068med, Aditya Zade, Shubham Gore, Prashant

Various researches and students have published related work Gaikwad, Mangesh Kolhal (2017). Their objective is to
in national and international research papers, thesis to analyze the previous year's student's historical data and
understand the objective, types of algorithm they have used predict placement chance of the current students and the
and various techniques for pre-processing, Feature. percentage placement chance of the institution. They have
used the Decision tree C4.5 Algorithm. Decision tree C4.5
Pothuganti Manvitha, Neelam Swaroopa (2019) used Random algorithms are applied to the Company’s previous year data &
Forest and Decision Tree. The accuracy obtained after current requirement to generate the model and this model can
analysis for Decision tree is 84% and for the Random Forest be used to predict the students’ eligibility in various
is 86%. Hence, from the above-said analysis and prediction, companies. According to company eligibility criteria, they
it’s better if the Random Forest algorithm is used to predict will send the notification to those candidates who are eligible
the placement results [1]. for that campus interview and check the eligibility of
candidate on the basis of percentage & technology [4].
Senthil Kumar Thangavel, Divya Bharathi P, Abijith
Sankar(2017) used Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, Apoorva Rao r , Deeksha K C , Vishal Prajwal R , Vrushak K,
Metabagging Classifier, Naïve Bayes and obtain highest Nandini M S (2018). They have used techniques like
84.42% accuracy in Decision Tree. The objectives, which is to clustering along with that they have used classification rule
predict the placement status the students in Btech are most Naïve Bayes algorithm that will classify students in five
likely to have at the end of their final year placements. The

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different status i.e. Dream company, Core Company, Mass we have merged 12th and diploma marks and made
recruiters, Not eligible and Not interested[5] a single column for both.
 Some of the tuples where from M.tech background
so we have dropped them and even in
3. DATASET DESCRIPTION AND “current_aggregate” column we have dropped the
SYSTEM FLOW NA values because the whole row was having NA.
 Replaced all NA values in columns
“Current_Back_Papers”,
This approach was followed in following Figure 3. “Current_Pending_Back_Papers”, all semester wise
“Sem_Back_Papers”, “Sem_Pending_Back_Papers”
with 0 because it was null only if that student have
no backlogs
Data Gathering  Using LabelEncoder from Preprocessing API in
sklearn encoded the labels of columns
“'Degree_Specializations”, “Campus”,” Gender”,
“year_down”, “educational_gap”

Pre-processing
3.2 Feature Selection
As per machine learning Feature Selection algorithms like
“Ridge”, “Lasso”, “RFE”, “plot importance”, “F1 score” and
“feature importance” we have got various outputs
Feature selection
 “Feature importance” with DT

Training different
Model

Model Selection

Prediction

Figure 3. Flow chart

Figure 3.2.1 Feature importance with DT

3.1 Data gathering and Pre-processing

The Data was collected from Training and placement
department of MIT which consist of all the students of
Bachler of Engineering (B.E) from 3 different colleges of
their campus. The Data consists of 2338 records with 31
different attribute.
 Dataset contains academic information of students.
As some students have completed their 12th and
some of them are from diploma background who
have directly taken admission to the second year so,

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 “Feature importance” with Random Forest  “RFE”

Num Features: 5 Features support : [False False False False

False False False False True False False True False False
False True False True False False False False True False False
False False False False False] Features Ranking [25 6 4 3 24 8
13 22 1 10 11 1 23 17 2 1 19 1 5 18 7 21 1 26 16 20 15 12 14
9] selected
Features:['Sem1_Pending_Back_Papers',’Sem2_Pending_Bac
k_Papers','Sem4_Aggregate_Marks','Sem4_Pending_Back_Pa
pers', 'Sem6_Back_Papers']
Selected features index: [8, 11, 15, 17, 22]

 “Ridge”

Figure 3.2.2 Feature importance with Random Forest

 “F1 score”

Feature Names F1 score

Sem4_Aggregate_Marks 312.063809

Current_Aggregate_Marks 286.086537

Sem3_Aggregate Marks 255.771833

Sem2_Aggregate_Marks 164.183078

12th_/_Diploma_Aggre_marks 142.208129

Sem1_Aggregate_Marks 139.183936
Figure 3.2.3 Feature Selection Using Ridge
Sem6_Aggregat_ Marks 136.333959

Sem5_Aggregate_Marks 131.988165

10th_Aggregate_Marks 128.526784

Sem6_Back_Papers 128.526784

live_atkt 47.908927

Sem5_Back_Papers 45.382049

Sem4_Back_Papers 43.547352

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 “Lasso”

Figure 4.2 Campus wise number of students who got placed

Figure 3.2.4 Feature Selection Using Lasso

But as per the domain knowledge we have selected

all the features which are importance for our model

4. EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

Figure 4.3 Gender Wise Student Placement

5. BAGGING AND BOOSTING

Figure 4.1 Total number of student placed

Bagging is nothing but bootstrap aggregating, it is an
ensemble method to improve the accuracy and stability of the
models. Random samples are taken with replacement and with
every new sample that is generated is trained and the
ensemble can make a prediction for the new instance by
simply aggregating the prediction of all predictors

Boosting is nothing but the ensemble method that can

combine different weak learner into a strong learner. Its main
aim is to train predictors sequentially. Most popular are
AdaBoost and Gradient Boosting.

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Base classifier- AdaBoost Classifier

7. REFERENCES
Decision Tree
[1] Pothuganti Manvitha, Neelam Swaroopa “Campus
Placement Prediction Using Supervised Machine Learning
Bagging Classifier Techniques” International Journal of Applied Engineering
Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 14, Sept 2019

Figure 5.1 Layering of Classifiers [2] Senthil Kumar Thangavel, Divya Bharathi P, Abijith
Sankar “Student Placement Analyzer: A Recommendation
System Using Machine Learning” 2017 International
We have used Base Classifier as Decision Tree, over that we Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication
have used AdaBoost Classifier and over that we have used Systems (ICACCS -2017), Coimbatore, INDIA, Jan. 06 – 07,
Baagging Classifier because we want to tune the accuracy of 2017
the model
[3] Ajay Kumar Pal, Saurabh Pal “Classification Model of
Prediction for Placement of Students” I.J.Modern Education
and Computer Science, 2013, 11, 49-56 Published Online, 11
6. RESULT AND CONCLUSION November 2013

[4] Syed A0068med, Aditya Zade, Shubham Gore, Prashant

Algorithms Accuracy Gaikwad, Mangesh Kolhal “Smart System for Placement
Prediction using Data Mining” International Journal for
Logistic Regression 58% Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology
(IJRASET) ISSN: 2321-9653, Dec 2017
Support Vector Machine 69%
[5] Apoorva Rao r , Deeksha K C , Vishal Prajwal R ,
KNN 63.22 % Vrushak K, Nandini M S “Student placement analyzer: a
recommendation system using machine learning” ijariie-
Decision Tree 69% issn(o)-2395-4396, Jan 2018

Random Forest 75.25%

AdaBoost(DT) 77%

Gradient Boosting 77%

Voting Classifier Soft 69.11%

Voting Classifier Hard 68.43%

XGBoost 78%

In this model, we have considered various academics records

along with all semester’s aggregate, live backlog, dead
backlog, education gap, year down. This model will help the
teachers to find whether the student will get placement or not
prior in 3rd year only so that they can pay special attention to
those students who are predicted as not getting placement.
Even the institute can take major steps to improve the
qualities of those students before their final placement.
Various algorithms were used but the final model is selected
on AdaBoost classifier along with the Bagging and Decision
Tree as Base Classifier as its accuracy is very high.

The existing dataset was only for 3 colleges further even we

can add more college’s dataset to it for prediction. In future,
we are going to implement Deep learning algorithms which
may give better accuracy then Machine Learning models

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