Students' careers analysis: A process mining approach

University degrees are typically organized in courses with prerequisites among them. If prerequisite are not mandatory, students are left free to attend courses and take exams in almost any order. While favoring flexible organization of the work by students, this practice can also lead to unstructured learning practices and to performance issues. In this paper we propose to take a process-oriented view of students' careers and analyze them by process mining techniques. Results provide us with some evidence of typical patterns followed by students and of the advantages of adopting structured learning practices.