Undergraduate students perception about academic environment of UFG: factor analysis and cluster

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the use of factor analysis and cluster based on the perception of undergraduate students related to the academic environment of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). The first method, namely factor analysis allows to identify five factors extracted from the 19 issues examined from a total of 26 questions once answered by students at the time of enrollment in the second half of 2013. Moreover the second method, cluster analysis, segmented eight groups for the 106 courses of UFG, allowing to note that in some areas there is a predominant groupings of health, information sciences and engineering, leading the conclusion that students have similar perceptions as their area of knowledge, even varying the campuses they have attend classes.