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Nowadays the amount of data and information is increasing and based on the repeatetive feature of it, analyzing and mining this data in order to get knowledge out of it, is extraordinary important. Ministry of education is one of the most important organization in each country since it is making the future. Therefore, the necessity of analyzing educational data is clear and number of recearches in this field is getting more and more every year. One of the most productive thechniques for analysing data is Data mining.
In this research, data mining is used to get the hidden information of master students' data of Engineering management in industrial engineering department of IUST as a small sample of educational system in country. Data mining is used not only to get the hidden information but also to find a pattern, which can be used for similar cases in future. Therefore, three factor are selected as indicators of success in master and they are: high master GPA , low period of master and having no fails. Important items that make these two aims happen are discoverd. This research can help governments to pass new laws in order to improve educational organizations.
Although, there are some conflicts in factors, to achieve low period and the two other items, these factors can be considered as important ones: age, bachelor GPA, bachelor major and bachelor university. In this research, different techniques are used in IBM Modeler18 such as: clustering, classification and assocation rules.