Students' Social Networks: Impact on Academic Performance Change

Student: Norov Safarbek

Faculty: Faculty of Economics, Management, and Business Informatics

Educational Programme: Economics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This research studies the relationship between students' academic performance and the characteristics of their friendship`s social network in classes. Previous articles studying this relationship, show various effects of the influence of friendship’s social networks on academic performance. The authors of empirical researches come to different conclusions about the nature of influence for different social groups and structures of friendship networks. In our research, we conducted an econometric analysis of this relationship using data from direct surveys of students at the HSE Perm 2017 recruitment. We verify hypotheses about the relationship of students' academic performance with the characteristics of their friendship`s social networks: the number of friends, friend’s academic performance and the fraction of friends with higher academic performance than their own academic performance.

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