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Emily Schnee – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Upon returning to in-person teaching at Kingsborough Community College after the pandemic, I realized something profound had shifted in my students. The well-documented drop in community college enrollment attributed to the pandemic seemed to reflect deeper disjunctures that had led students to an existential questioning of the purpose…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Role of Education
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Khusboo Srivastava; Somesh Dhamija – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to elucidate the role of key influencers impacting the student decision-making process of enrollment for higher education in India from the lenses of Stephen Covey's theory on circles of life. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 556 students of Delhi NCR, India was selected based on a multi-staged sampling method.…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Decision Making, College Choice, Enrollment
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Önder Kethüda – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
This study evaluates the influence of ranking reports on university brands' credibility and perceived differentiation. Signaling theory is applied to link ranking with credibility and perceived differentiation. An experimental approach was used to collect data and to test the hypothesis. Data was collected from 328 participants in the UK regarding…
Descriptors: Credibility, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation
Carmen H. J. Lim – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
The purpose of this research was to investigate the progression outcomes of the June 2020 Key Stage 5 cohort following the completion of their post-16 studies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary interest was to understand whether students from this cohort had progressed differently compared to the previous pre-pandemic cohort of students and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Secondary School Students
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Cook, Amanda M. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
There is a well-documented relationship between academic match and bachelor's degree completion; students who undermatch are less likely to complete a BA than those who match or overmatch, net of academic qualifications and demographic characteristics. Little is known, however, about whether this association has changed over time. I argue that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Bachelors Degrees, Graduation
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Szymczak, Wojciech; Gajderowicz, Tomasz – Journal of School Choice, 2023
This study aims to discover the barriers to studying a major aligned with personal interests. We applied a unique dataset on real retrospective choices of prospective students in Poland and utilized Random Parameter Multinomial Logistic Regression to model the preferences. We used driving time instead of geographical proximity to abolish the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Choice, Majors (Students), Student Interests
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Di Pietro, Giorgio – Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how COVID-19 impacted overseas students' decision to apply for an undergraduate degree at UK universities. Design/methodology/approach: This study compares the number of university applications from overseas students in summer and autumn 2020 with those in the period 2011-2019. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Decision Making
Wanda-Elizabeth Garraway – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined New York City Black and Latinx high school students' perceptions of their college counseling experiences. In particular, I sought to understand how the students perceived the role their high school guidance counselors' expectations of their abilities played in the choice of colleges to which they were counseled to apply. Data…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, College Choice, Counselor Role
Fields, Elizabeth N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The focus of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of parents located in one middle Tennessee school district regarding the Tennessee Promise scholarship. The perception of the parents regarding the role of the school counselor in assisting families in the college choice process for high school seniors as they prepare for after…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, State Programs, Scholarships, School Counselors
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Quinlan, Kathleen M. – London Review of Education, 2021
Although students are increasingly cast as consumers wanting 'value for money', this study empirically investigated whether students actively seek value for money. In Study 1, 1,772 undergraduates at a mid-ranked English university were asked open-ended questions about what they had wanted from their university learning experience and how that had…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Choice, Student Satisfaction, College Freshmen
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Wesley Jeffrey; Benjamin G. Gibbs – Research in Higher Education, 2024
While a substantial body of work has shown that higher-SES students tend to apply to more selective colleges than their lower-SES counterparts, we know relatively less about "why" students differ in their application behavior. In this study, we draw upon a sociological approach to educational stratification to unpack the SES-based gap in…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, College Choice
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Katherine Davey – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Based on the life and educational histories of sixteen high-achieving, working-class girls applying to high-tariff universities, this paper rekindles debates about the role of agency within the decision-making process of young people who might not otherwise be expected to apply to such institutions. It draws on Margaret Archer's theorising to…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Working Class, Females, College Choice
Richard James Muth – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The first goal of this study was to better understand the differences between rural and urban students' selection of academic program upon entering a public university in Pennsylvania. The second goal of this study was to better understand if particular academic programs impacted rural to urban migrations after graduating from the university. The…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Rural Urban Differences, Decision Making, Public Colleges
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Carol Cutler White; Diane D. Chapman – Rural Educator, 2024
Prior research on college choice indicates parents are the preferred source of information about college, yet little research exists from the viewpoint of parents, and even less research from the viewpoint of rural and minoritized parents. Using Q methodology, this study explored rural parent viewpoints of what makes college possible. The study…
Descriptors: Parents, High Schools, Rural Areas, Parent Attitudes
Kristy L. Tipton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the factors influencing the matriculation trends of former College Credit Plus (CCP) participants to host institutions in Ohio, utilizing Perna's (2006) College Choice Model as a framework. The study examines variables such as course modality, geographical proximity to the host institution, course load, and grade…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment
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