President Says 100 Private Colleges Follow Crowd: The Higher Their Prices, the More Students Apply.

Evangelauf, Jean

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Publication Date: 1987

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President Says 100 Private Colleges Follow Crowd: The Higher Their Prices, the More Students Apply.

Evangelauf, Jean

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n25 pA29-30 Mar 2 1987

Comments by David Brenneman, president of Kalamazoo College, suggest that some people judge quality by price, and a low price at a private college is not necessarily a sign of good management. Peer pressure is responsible for one or two percentage points of annual tuition increases of selective private colleges. (MLW)

Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Presidents, Competition, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Student Costs, Tuition

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