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Communications and Network, 2012, 4, 261-268 /10.4236/cn.2012.43030 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/cn) Case Study: Data Mining of Associate Degree Accepted Candidates by Modular Method 1 2* Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli , Maryam Nazaridoust 1Department of Computer Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, University of Qom, Qom, Iran * Email: b_minaei@iust.ac.ir, nazaridoustm@ Received January 14, 2012; revised March 1, 2012; accepted April 2, 2012 ABSTRACT Since about 10 years ago, University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST) in Iran has admitted students in dis- continuous associate degree by modular method, so that almost 100,000 students are accepted every year. Although the first aim of holding such courses was to improve scientific and skill level of employees, over time a considerable group of unemployed people have been interested to participate in these courses. According to this fact, in this paper, we mine and analyze a sample data of accepted candidates in modular 2008 and 2009 courses by using unsupervised and super- vised learning paradigms. In the first step, by using unsupervised paradigm, we grouped (clustered) set of modular ac- cepted candidates based on their student status and labeled data sets by three classes so that each class somehow shows educational and student status of modular accepted candidates. In the second step, by using supervised and unsuper- vised algorithms, we generated predicting models in 2008 data sets. Then, by making a