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Carmichael, Barry, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study was a qualitative descriptive design to understand the college choice selection of nontraditional African-American students and experiences related to the adult transitional processes of college enrollment. The guiding framework was Iloh's enhanced Hossler-Gallagher model of the decision-making process used for college choice…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Colleges, Nontraditional Students, College Choice
Leoni, Silvia – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Although the low level of tuition fees and the absence of other access barriers, Italy is characterized by low educational attainments at the university level. This work models the choice of young Italians to attend university or leave education and enter the labor market, by making use of an agent-based model that reproduces the Italian higher…
Descriptors: Models, College Choice, Foreign Countries, Decision Making
Griffith, David Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how college-bound Generation Z students describe higher education institutions' use of social media as a marketing tool during their college choice experience in Texas. The foundation for the study was the college choice model from Hossler and Gallagher that identified three phases…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Choice, Student Experience, College Bound Students
Bernhard Christoph; Heike Spangenberg; Heiko Quast – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Unequal access to university and the decision processes that give rise to it are important factors in the accumulation of educational inequalities. In this paper, we investigate a specific aspect of such decision processes by focusing on those students who change their original plans to start a (nontertiary) vocational education and decide to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Preferences, Decision Making
Ntide Dady; Guoyuan Sang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
With rapid economic advancement and government commitment to the expansion of higher education, China has taken a leap forward from being a leading sender of international students to an attractive destination for international students. In many respects, the hurried expansion and internationalization of Chinese higher education itself are a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Higher Education
Timo Van Canegem; Isis Vandelannote; Mieke Van Houtte; Jannick Demanet – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Grade retention is often perceived as an academic failure and a negative response from the educational system. Hence, based on the social cognitive theory, being retained might decrease self-efficacy. This way, we expect that retainees are less likely to pursue a degree in higher education. Retainees that do enroll in higher education, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Social Promotion
Christopher J. P. Sewell – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
As American colleges and universities become more diverse, expanding our vision and working around what it means to be a legacy, especially at Predominately White Institutions, will be essential. This paper examines Black families' experiences at Churchill, a small liberal arts PWI in the Northeast. With the aid of Yosso's community cultural…
Descriptors: Predominantly White Institutions, African American Students, Fathers, Parent Background
Jessica Prach; Ane Turner Johnson; Sarah Ferguson – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
As marketization and privatization strategies become commonplace in higher education, it is essential for institutions to understand how students make decisions about college choice. Students as consumers engage in complex college choice decision-making that is often impacted by institutional and personal characteristics, such as cost, location,…
Descriptors: College Choice, Consumer Economics, Higher Education, Decision Making
Oscar Espinoza; Luis Sandoval; Luis Eduardo González; Bruno Corradi; Noel McGinn; Trinidad Vera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
How does a policy of free tuition affect student applications to universities? This article assesses how free tuition influences applications in terms of the selectivity of the university, length of the degree program, cost of the program, and application to a program in the STEM field. The study based on a quasi-experimental design was carried…
Descriptors: Tuition, College Choice, Costs, Program Content
Gary F. Madvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated perceptions about the correlation between the college people attend and long-term happiness. Its inquiry into whether college graduates believe where they go to college affects the chance for long-term happiness is a response to the growing concerns of high school students who are anxious about acceptance into an elite…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Colleges, College Choice, Cost Effectiveness
Jeremy Wayne Tate – American Enterprise Institute, 2024
A January 2024 survey found that 72 percent of parents had considered a new school for their children in the past year. And in 2025, Texas and Tennessee are poised to become the next states to enact education savings account (ESA) programs, potentially giving millions more students the education options that their parents want for them. As a…
Descriptors: School Choice, College Choice, Alternative Assessment, Standardized Tests
Kinsman, Jeremy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research examines the relationship between financial aid, price, and the enrollment decisions of first-generation college students. Using human capital and socio-cultural theories in conjunction with previous research, the study establishes a conceptual framework to assess how personal, academic, and college variables associate with a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Costs, College Choice, First Generation College Students
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick; Weerapana, Akila – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals, but because who is in a field may shape what is studied by it. If increasing the rate of majoring in mathematically-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education, Economics, Majors (Students)
Ortiz, Esmeralda J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation Latina/o/x students have some of the lowest college attainment rates in the nation. College attainment is influenced by the access students have to different college systems. The college choices students access can reflect individual, community, and school-level factors that impact how much college knowledge and resources students…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Influences, First Generation College Students
Breaking the Cycle? An Exploration of Academic Matching and Rural Students' College Choice Processes
Wolfgang, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The issue of academic undermatching involves students enrolling at colleges and universities below the level of selectivity to which their academic profiles indicate they could gain admission. Undermatching has received significant attention because students who undermatch have been shown to experience less favorable outcomes than their peers who…
Descriptors: College Choice, Rural Population, College Students, Student Experience