The higher education system suffers from various drawbacks and the main reason behind this is difficulty in its evaluation and hindrances in improvement opportunities. analysis of Institutional data is a new evolving concept which involves the development of different approaches to examining the novel type of dataset coming from the institutional environment and utilizing those approaches to recognize the students in a more appropriate way. In order to reach this objective, the organizations are required to acquire in-depth knowledge to adequately perform the task ofassessing,forecasting,planning, evaluating, and decision-making. A major part of the information can be achieved through the organization’s old records and databases. Data analyzing is simply a method of digging out unknown or in-depth knowledge from a set of a huge dataset. This paper is basically produced to highlight the role of data analysis or mining and itsimplicationsintheperformance of higher education.