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Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) and Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME) were used as XAI models to identify the most influential features, including GPA, academic year, employment status, family\/friends support, and prior major knowledge. The results indicate that the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)-based Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) model achieves the best performance, with an accuracy of 97.6%. Additionally, the Local Explanation Evaluation Framework (LEAF) showed that LIME outperformed SHAP on all four metrics: fidelity, local concordance, prescriptivity, and stability. 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