Rank All Students By Total Credits In Descending Order

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Rank order all students by total credit (descending).

Create a view named tot_credits_dept with columns: year, dept_name, num_credits. This view should contain the total number of credits taken by all students in each year for courses offered by each department.

Compute the average number of credits over the three preceding years per department using the view you created.

Compute the maximum number of credits over a window of 2 years before and 2 years after the current year per department.

Using the view you just created, get the average total credits by each department over all prior years.

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Academic institutions rely heavily on data management and analysis to understand student performance, departmental productivity, and trends over time. One critical aspect of this data analysis involves ranking students based on their academic credits, as well as aggregating, averaging, and analyzing departmental data across different temporal windows. This essay discusses comprehensive methods for managing such data within a relational database context, focusing particularly on ranking students and creating views for departmental credit aggregation.

First, ranking students by total credits involves aggregating all credits a student has earned and sorting them in descending order. This process usually starts with a query that sums each student's credits from a student-course enrollment table, often called student_credits. The SQL statement might look like:

SELECT student_id, SUM(credits) AS total_credits


FROM student_credits


GROUP BY student_id


ORDER BY total_credits DESC;

To facilitate easier retrieval and in-depth analysis, creating a view named student_credit_ranking can be useful. This view stores student IDs along with their total credits and their respective rank, computed using SQL window functions like RANK() or DENSE_RANK(). For example:

CREATE VIEW student_credit_ranking AS


SELECT student_id, total_credits,


RANK() OVER (ORDER BY total_credits DESC) AS rank


FROM (


SELECT student_id, SUM(credits) AS total_credits


FROM student_credits


GROUP BY student_id


) AS subquery;

This approach ensures the data is pre-processed and accessible without repeated computation, improving query efficiency.

Next, creating a view named tot_credits_dept that records the total credits earned by students in each department per year involves joining course offerings, enrollment data, and department information. Suppose there exists tables such as courses (course_id, dept_name, year), enrollments (student_id, course_id, credits), then the SQL would be:

CREATE VIEW tot_credits_dept AS


SELECT c.year, c.dept_name, SUM(e.credits) AS num_credits


FROM courses c


JOIN enrollments e ON c.course_id = e.course_id


GROUP BY c.year, c.dept_name;

This view collates the total credits imparted by each department per year and serves as a foundation for further analysis.

Once the departmental total credits are stored, calculating the average number of credits over the preceding three years for each department involves window functions that consider sliding temporal windows. For example:

SELECT year, dept_name,


AVG(num_credits) OVER (


PARTITION BY dept_name


ORDER BY year


ROWS BETWEEN 3 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING


) AS avg_prior_three_years


FROM tot_credits_dept;

This query computes the average credits for each department over the past three years relative to each year, allowing trend analysis.

Similarly, to determine the maximum number of credits over a window spanning two years before and after each current year, the SQL window frame is adjusted:

SELECT year, dept_name,


MAX(num_credits) OVER (


PARTITION BY dept_name


ORDER BY year


ROWS BETWEEN 2 PRECEDING AND 2 FOLLOWING


) AS max_credits_window


FROM tot_credits_dept;

Such a calculation uncovers peaks in departmental activity or student participation within specific periods.

Finally, measuring the overall average total credits by each department over all prior years—excluding the current year—requires cumulative aggregation. This can be achieved via window functions or correlated subqueries, e.g.,

SELECT year, dept_name,


AVG(CASE WHEN year 

FROM tot_credits_dept


CROSS JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT year AS current_year FROM tot_credits_dept) AS years;

This pattern filters data to only prior years for averaging purposes, enabling analysis of long-term departmental trends.

In conclusion, employing advanced SQL features such as window functions, views, and joins offers a robust toolkit for student ranking and departmental performance analysis over time. These methods facilitate data-driven decision-making in academic settings, promote transparency, and help identify areas for strategic improvement. Implementing such analytical capabilities is vital for modern educational institutions seeking to optimize student outcomes and departmental efficiency.

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