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Levine, Phillip B.; Ma, Jennifer; Russell, Lauren C. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Do students respond to sticker prices or actual prices when applying to college? These costs differ for students eligible for financial aid. Students who do not understand this may not apply to some colleges because of the perceived high cost. We test for this form of "sticker shock" using College Board data on SAT scores sent, as a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Costs, Tuition, Student Reaction
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Monic P. Behnken; Tera R. Hurt; Maya Bartel; Leslie A. Winters – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2023
Land-grant institutions were designed to improve the lives of individuals and communities by removing barriers to education. However, despite years of effort to address the lack of scholars of color at these institutions, disparities have persisted. Many graduate students and faculty of color have reported that the workshops meant to diversify…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Workshops
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Jennifer L. Steele – Education Economics, 2024
The question of why postsecondary institutions produce different labor market outcomes is difficult to answer due to unobserved student characteristics. Here, I leverage students' geographic proximity to three classifications of postsecondary institutions -- earnings-enhancing, competitive, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Black Colleges, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
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Iorio, Juliana Chatti – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
For a long time the historical/colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal guaranteed the mobility of Brazilian elite that wanted to obtain a degree mostly from the University of Coimbra. However, only in the twenty-first century the flow of Brazilian students to Portuguese higher education increased, turning it into the largest community of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Policy, Educational Attainment, Universities
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Stewart, William H. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2021
Since the mid 1980s to today, the Republic of Korea has experienced significant immigration. The influx of various forms of migrants has started changing the makeup of an otherwise ethnically homogenous society. Despite such demographics changes, commensurate adjustments to government policies or institutional services have not necessarily…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Internet
Sapp, Sarah Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Institutions of higher learning today rely on tuition dollars to function. During a time when the pool of high school graduates is shrinking, colleges and universities must look to alternative target markets to meet enrollment goals, including those transferring from community college. Community college transfers have unique attributes that…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges
Mickler, Ronald J., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The enrollment decision-making process of a master of business administration (MBA) applicant contains multiple factors. Social influences from group memberships, marketing ads, and socioeconomic status carry varying amount of influence on the individual's choice for an MBA program. It is unknown what impact informal leaders, interpersonal…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Applicants, Graduate Study, Enrollment Influences
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Huang, Futao; Chen, Lilan – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2022
Given the criticism of the institutional practices of Japan's higher education institutions on international students' learning experiences, the study attempts to investigate why international students still chose to study at Japanese universities and whether they benefited from this experience. It also explores whether they benefit from this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Educational Experience, Barriers
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Wilson, Jeffery L. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
In this paper, an understanding of how an elite institution pursues diversity initiatives is explored. Research afforded a better understanding of strategies adopted for recruitment and retention whereby positive results were reported after implementation. Removing barriers that may prevent marginalized populations from enrolling were critical…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Student Diversity, Barriers, Disadvantaged
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Knight, Elizabeth Bronwen – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2022
Through historically oriented critical discourse analysis this article considers how the messages regarding the purpose of higher education, as presented in prospectuses of four case study institutions, have been impacted by massification and marketisation in England between 1977 and 2018. The prospectuses of four higher education institutions of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Discourse Analysis
Coombs, Harriet – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2022
First-in-family students make up a majority of young first-degree students yet face a number of challenges. So they are now the focus of many specific interventions in the UK and the USA. This report looks at the pros and cons of using first-in-family as a key measure of disadvantage. It argues that, while it is an appropriate metric for low-level…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, College Admission
Shawn Michael Adkins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The increased competitive nature of higher education institutions has caused many small private liberal arts colleges/universities to struggle economically. The cost of keeping such institutions viable is high. Many institutions have had to raise tuitions rates, which resulted in decreased enrollment numbers. As a result, many institutions have…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Student Recruitment, Colleges, Liberal Arts
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2023
High school students have been through profound changes and challenges in the last three years. The experiences of the pandemic, lockdowns, virtual classes, and economic and social disruptions have had tremendous--and possibly lasting--impacts on them. As they prepare to enroll in college, have those experiences changed how they search for…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, Grade 10, Grade 11
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Nguyen Thi Ngoc Ha; Cuong Huu Hoang; Elizabeth Knight; Peter Hurley – Journal of International Students, 2023
This systematic literature review synthesizes empirical evidence to comprehensively examine factors driving international students' choice of Australia as their preferred destination for tertiary education. Deductive analysis of findings from the 46 selected studies, framed within the push and pull framework, identified 27 factors that revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, College Choice
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Miyoshi, Noboru; Pan, Qiujing – Higher Education Forum, 2021
In the world today, there are 5 million international students studying abroad, including those at the universities in Japan. This research investigates the factors influencing the study abroad decision-making of Chinese international students, based on the results of two surveys and semi-structured interviews. It focuses on the universities'…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Decision Making, Foreign Students, College Bound Students
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