Universities aim at increasing student retention, with evidence‐based and data‐based governance of universities becoming best practice. In this context, managing large amounts of data in university management is a challenge. Sankey diagram visualizations of student flows per time unit (e.g. semesters) have been used as method for structuring but lacked the ability to go beyond program level. This study aims to advance this method by displaying multiple student lifecycles from school to doctorate, while including user‐based input. Data of 83,264 students enrolled into 140,593 programs between 2012/13 and 2022/23 with 657.615 distinct rows in the raw data were used. A self‐synchronizing web interface was provided, including filter and stratification variables. The diagrams could be mapped to students' lifecycles and extended over all degree levels and fields of study. Limitations were data availability and the lack of indicators for each stage of the student lifecycle. Improvements in the mapping are warranted.

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学生流程可视化

大学的目标是提高学生的保留率，基于证据和数据的大学治理成为最佳实践。在这种背景下，管理大学管理中的大量数据是一个挑战。每个时间单位（例如学期）的学生流的桑基图可视化已被用作构建方法，但缺乏超越项目级别的能力。本研究旨在通过显示从学校到博士学位的多个学生生命周期，同时包括基于用户的输入来推进这种方法。使用了 2012/13 年至 2022/23 年期间注册 140,593 个课程的 83,264 名学生的数据，原始数据中有 657.615 行不同的行。提供了一个自同步的网络界面，包括过滤器和分层变量。这些图表可以映射到学生的生命周期，并扩展到所有学位级别和学习领域。局限性在于数据可用性以及缺乏学生生命周期每个阶段的指标。映射方面的改进是有必要的。