Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology
Abstract
Information regarding students’ and education institutes’ progress is a barometer for the overall prestige of the education
system in Greece. Scientific community, the relative ministries and the society demand the evaluation of students and
education institutes. Higher education studies are one of the most important level of education in Greece and compose
important time in the lives of young scientists. A long deliberation took place during the last years regarding the time that
is consuming for higher education and whether it should be unlimited or it should be limited to an upper limit. Recently, a
rule of (2ν+1) for the upper limit of studies has been set by the Greek state. The pass-mark of 10 has been abolished and a
deliberation for possible integration and abolishment of departments has started. In this paper, we study data regarding
duration of studies in the department of Industrial Informatics of the Kavala Institute of Technology. The goal of this
study is to extract important conclusions for the students’ progress and for their evaluation for the department. The final
conclusions can become an important tool for the department, in order to make the necessary actions for its better
function