<![CDATA[Selecting a major can be quite difficult for prospective college students. The choice may have an effect not only on their academic life, but also on their career path. Due to some restrictions as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities must find novel ways to reach prospective students and assist them in choosing their majors, one of which is a college major recommendation system. This system can assist prospective students in determining the most appropriate majors for them based on data from the current students. Unlike other existing systems that employ either a rule-based or fuzzy model, this study employs a machine learning approach using data from undergraduate students at Universitas Islam Indonesia. This paper aims to compare several clustering models (i.e., K-means, Agglomerative, Birch, and DBSCAN) for the purpose of categorizing current students, to which the results will be used for classification purposes using various approaches (i.e., single stage vs. multistage), algorithms (i.e., multinomial logistic regression, random forest, and support vector machine), and scenarios (i.e., with or without GPA-based label). Our findings indicate that the K-means model outperformed all other clustering models and that the single stage with random forest classification model performed the best across all scenarios.]]>
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