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Sanjay Krishnapratap Pawar; Ruby S. Chanda – Cogent Education, 2024
An evaluation of extant research reveals a significant blind spot around investigating the enrolment decision-making of Indian international students in the STEM fields. This study qualitatively explores the motivations of Indian international students to pursue a STEM Master's program in an industrialised country. To elicit pertinent information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, STEM Education, Student Motivation
Ryan A. Miller; Lauren Slane; Tynsley Gilchrist; Carmen Serrata – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Given inequities in transfer student success, emerging research about transfer students has focused on students' familial relationships and identities including race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. This qualitative study uses the reconceptualized model of multiple dimensions of identity to explore how social and relational identities influence…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Social Status
Byron W. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As it becomes more difficult to predict enrollment outcomes and the decline in high school graduates' looms on the horizon, the ability of higher education leaders to understand what characteristics of the university brand are most compelling for prospective students is important to ensure enrollment objectives are met. This mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Institutional Characteristics, College Choice, Religious Colleges
Shomon Shamsuddin – Education and Urban Society, 2024
Despite high aspirations, many students do not complete postsecondary education. Some scholars advocate for providing more college information to increase enrollment and reduce attainment gaps but this approach overlooks what school counselors and students do with information. Based on interviews and participant observations drawn from 20 urban…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, School Counselors, College Choice, Decision Making
Patricia Alejandra Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines how first-generation high school Students of Color from California's San Joaquin Valley navigate digital marketing and advertising during their college search and application processes, offering a timely contribution to the study of college admissions in a post-affirmative action landscape. Higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, First Generation College Students, Marketing, Advertising
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Framularo, Charles – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2022
Previous research has shown that when adult students receive credit for their prior learning (CPL), they are more likely to complete credentials while saving time and money doing so. In addition, colleges and universities can also benefit from CPL: adult students who earn credit through CPL are more likely to persist toward completion, and so they…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Prior Learning, College Credits, Recognition (Achievement)
Bradley, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Declining enrollment of African American 1st-year students at a predominately White institution (PWI) may indicate an unwelcoming campus culture. For the last 5 years, African American 1st-year enrollment has decreased at a local PWI. The purpose of this study was to better understand how the campus climate may influence the enrollment decision…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Freshmen, Predominantly White Institutions, College Environment
Phil J. Verpil – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Literature exploring first-generation college students is evolving to include the often-missed lived postsecondary experiences of first-generation immigrant college students of color. Research delving further into the nuanced postsecondary aspirations and experiences of those college students of color who are both first-generation and from an…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, First Generation College Students, Immigrants, Minority Group Students
Phan, Anh Ngoc Quynh – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Opting for academic sojourns has become increasingly popular for students worldwide at various levels of education. While there have been a number of research studies into the college and country choice of university students at the undergraduate level, the opinions of international doctoral students are less presented, and if presented, they are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, College Choice
Bleemer, Zachary; Kumar, Mukul; Mehta, Aashish; Muellerleile, Chris; Newfield, Christopher – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide where to go to college and what to study once they arrive. In "Metrics That Matter," coauthors Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield take a critical look at these metrics…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Universities
Sylvester Cortes; Alma Agero; Elena Maria Agravante; Janelyn Arado; Cynthia Anne Arbilon; Eddalin Lampawog; Arlene Fe Letrondo; Anne Lorca; Asuncion Monsanto; Hedeliza Pineda; Cristina Ramas; Raamah Rosales; Cecile Sadili; Juanita Sayson; Ryan Tubog – Cogent Education, 2023
With the declining number of students interested in pursuing STEM courses such as Bachelor's Degree in Biology as evidenced by low enrollment, HEIs currently offering and those which intend to offer the academic degree program are competing and looking for ways to increase their competitiveness. Hence, several efforts have been made in response to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, High School Seniors, Biology
Gaspar, Adília Mendonça da Costa e Silva; Soares, José Miguel Aragão Celestino – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2021
Higher education (HE) plays a predominant role in the development of any society. The expansion of HE all over the country (Angola) through the creation of new public and private higher education institutions (HEIs), as well as the creation of internal and external scholarships, have been some of the policies aimed at increasing access to HE,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Choice, Student Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics
Troiano, Helena; Torrents, Dani; Daza, Lidia – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we use longitudinal data to examine the compensation effect when young students decide among different tertiary education options. We begin with an analysis of the transition to higher vocational training programmes or university degree programmes. For those choosing the university option, we then analyse the risk (high or low) of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Socioeconomic Background, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Kyle L. McCarrell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For many open-enrolled higher education institutions, including community colleges, enrollment is dropping each semester creating significant financial challenges. While much research literature focuses on four-year colleges, little is known about the students who seek to enroll at community colleges. What is known is often evaluated using college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, College Choice, Community College Students
Rand Al-Dmour; Hani Al-Dmour; Ahmed Al-Dmour – Journal of International Students, 2024
This study investigates the role of social media quality in mediating the effects of marketing mix strategies on international students' decisions regarding their study destinations, focusing on Jordanian universities. Integrating consumer behavior theories, the research aims to understand how marketing mix elements--product/program quality,…
Descriptors: College Choice, Mass Media Role, Marketing, Student Recruitment