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Lewis, Ebony E. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores why African American first-year students admitted to the University of California Davis decline their offer of admissions. The objective is to help the University successfully achieve their goal of supporting greater diversity and representation of students from historically underrepresented minority communities and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Choice, College Admission, Student Attitudes
V. Paige Zeiger – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As the counseling profession continues to evolve and change, there is a growing need for more professional counselors who are appropriately trained. Research indicated that a high percentage of prospective and current counseling graduate students lacked awareness of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Counselor Training, Accreditation (Institutions), Phenomenology
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Chen, Jiexiu – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Since the restoration of the "Gaokao" (College Entrance Examination) in 1977 and the nationwide higher education expansion that started in 1998, millions of rural students have enrolled in urban universities. Though Chinese rural students' educational trajectories have received extensive attention, their subjective experiences in the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Preferences
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Nuseir, Mohammed T.; El Refae, Ghaleb A. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2022
This study empirically examines different factors that influence students to select universities in the UAE. The primary data were collected based on a survey of students at two public universities -- United Arab Emirates University and Zayed University, as well as three private universities -- New York University, Abu Dhabi University, and Alain…
Descriptors: Marketing, College Choice, Decision Making, Student Attitudes
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Reardon, James; Miller, Chip; McCorkle, Denny – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: This research aims to examine business students' geographic interests and motivations for study abroad. Design/methodology/approach: Two hundred sixty-seven undergraduate business students from a midwestern university completed the survey on perceived benefits and obstacles of studying abroad (personal and professional), geographic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Decision Making, College Choice, Student Attitudes
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Robertson, Susan L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
A great deal has been written about the rise of the world-class university and global university rankings over the past two decades. Much of this work focuses on either the efficacy of the indicators used to measure world classness or on the purposes they serve regarding student choice in an international market. However, less attention has been…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Tessler, Hannah – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS:09), this study examines the experience of college acceptance and rejection among white and Asian American students applying to four-year postsecondary institutions. The results suggest that Asian male students in particular face higher rejection rates relative to whites with similar…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, White Students, College Applicants, Student Experience
Okpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E.; Park, Sunggeun – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
Previous CalYOUTH memos suggest that the overwhelming majority (upwards of 85%) of youth in California foster care who go to college first attend an in-state, public, 2-year college. The current memo takes a closer look at the types of colleges that foster youth enroll in, including average retention rates and the number of semesters completed at…
Descriptors: Foster Care, College Attendance, College Choice, Institutional Characteristics
Kortney Tambara-Leviste – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is focused on understanding the expectations, beliefs, and motivations of parental involvement during the college choice process. Many high school students are under a lot of stress and pressure influenced by a culture of achievement. This culture has created a competitive college choice process and has intensified the role of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Parent Child Relationship, Grade 12, High School Students
Yaacov Wittman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying the importance of household income for shaping student outcomes in the market for higher education in the United States. The first chapter uses the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to document that conditional on student ability, high-income students are more likely to enroll in college and…
Descriptors: Family Income, Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies, Higher Education
Santiago, Deborah; Labandera, Emily; Arroyo, Cassandra – Excelencia in Education, 2023
Over the last five years, Puerto Rico has faced fiscal and economic disruptions, demographic shifts, hurricanes and earthquakes, governance challenges, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While most of these conditions are not new to Puerto Rico, the intersection of all these challenges created a nexus for institutional resilience and efforts. This…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
National Association for College Admission Counseling, 2023
This guide is the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) commitment to principled conduct among professionals who support students in the college transition process from secondary school to postsecondary education and in the transfer process between postsecondary institutions. College counseling and admission professionals…
Descriptors: College Admission, Ethics, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Garcia, Nichole M.; Delgado Bernal, Dolores – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Almost two decades after Delgado Bernal's theorization of pedagogies of the home, this article examines pedagogies of the home of four Chicana/o college-educated families to understand the role of parent engagement not only in the college choice processes but also in college completion and graduate school enrollment. Using Chicana feminisms to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Hispanic American Students, College Choice, Feminism
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Murillo, Marco A. – Urban Education, 2021
This study examines how an urban, California high school supports undocumented students' college access and the challenges the school and students encounter. Employing case study methodology, school observations and interviews with 14 undocumented students and 13 educators were conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the processes involved in…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Lazarides, Rebecca; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Rubach, Charlott; Oppermann, Elisa; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This longitudinal person-centered study aimed to identify profiles of subjective task values and ability self-concepts of adolescents in the domain of mathematics, English, biology, and physics in Grades 10 and 12. We were interested in gendered changes of profile membership, and in relations between profile membership and educational and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Motivation, High School Students, Grade 10
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