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Skinner, Benjamin T. – Research in Higher Education, 2019
In this paper I investigate the college enrollment decisions of a nationally representative cohort of students who first attended in the mid-2000s. I find that while cost, distance, and match continued to be important in the choice between colleges, characteristics of the most-likely college choice appear less important in the choice of whether to…
Descriptors: College Choice, Decision Making, Enrollment, Student Characteristics
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, College Choice, Educational Demand
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Farrow, Michael James; Coaxum, James, III – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
The Pentecostal movement continues to expand throughout Latinx communities. Pentecostalism has traditionally held a hostile attitude toward college education and secular academic institutions. Conversely, Latinx churches have had a positive influence on academic success. This interpretive phenomenological study extends the College-conocimiento…
Descriptors: High School Students, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, Christianity
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Dai, Kun; Hu, Yating; Li, Xiaoyuan; Oladipo, Oluwasegun – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
With the growing trend of globalisation and the internationalisation of higher education, China actively recruits more international students to study at Chinese universities. Notably, international doctoral students are a significant cohort in this trend. Although many studies have investigated international students' learning experiences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs
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Oy Lar Kiki, Chan; Lau, Yui-yip; Chan, Victor C. W. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: This study empirically investigates the influence of students' brand attitudes and perceptions of brand fit on their study intention vis-à-vis international brand alliances and individual brands after alliance. Design/methodology/approach: Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used in data analysis, and a questionnaire was administered…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Cooperation, Student Attitudes
Gurantz, Oded; Odle, Taylor K. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
We replicate and extend prior work on Florida's Bright Futures merit aid scholarship to consider its effect on college enrollment and degree completion. We estimate causal impacts using a regression discontinuity design to exploit SAT thresholds that strongly determine eligibility. We find no positive impacts on attendance or attainment, and…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Choice, Educational Attainment, State Programs
Bruce E. Panneton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This mixed-methods study investigates the real and perceived barriers that African American male Edgecombe County high school students face when considering college enrollment to inform potential interventions to improve college enrollment of this market segment. Phase I of the study design included a survey of current, African American, male…
Descriptors: Marketing, Males, High School Students, African American Students
Cindy M. Haney – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study attempted to understand the implications of a last-dollar, free community college program, otherwise known as a College Promise Program, and its ability to provide educational access, academic success, and degree attainment for the neediest of students. Three research questions focused on the relationship between eligibility…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Education, Access to Education, Outcomes of Education
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Lang, Daniel W. – College Quarterly, 2018
This is a culmination of three related studies of how students make choices within binary systems of post-secondary education: school to college or university, college to university, and college to college to university. The predecessor study investigated how high school students who had been offered admission to a college and a university chose…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Transfer Students, College Students, Articulation (Education)
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Guilbault, Melodi – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2016
Even though marketing in higher education (HE) is well established, there is a continued debate about who the customer is, with many still not accepting that students should be viewed as customers in HE. The student as customer model has its opponents and proponents. This paper reframes the debate using the framework of market orientation,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Student Recruitment, College Choice, Commercialization
Monarrez, Tomas – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
As of 2015, eighteen states in the nation had enacted tuition equity laws granting resident tuition rates to qualifying undocumented students. The state of Texas was the pioneer of this movement, approving House Bill 1403 in July of 2001. The initiative came to be known as the 'Texas Dream Act' (TDA). It granted a large reduction in the cost of…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Choice, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged Youth
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Momunalieva, Anara; Urdaletova, Anarkul; Ismailova, Rita; Abdykeev, Ernis – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
In this study, the perceived quality of higher education in the Kyrgyz Republic was analysed from the students' perspective. The factors affecting the university choice as well as factors defining the perceived quality of education were investigated using a quantitative approach. The results of the study revealed that students perceive the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, College Students, College Choice
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Azzone, Giovanni; Soncin, Mara – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
When investigating students' motivations to enrol in university, a wide range of elements related to the overall student experience should be taken into account. The current study moves from this point to analyse students' choice factors from a survey completed by 27,504 students across 23 Italian institutions by means of a logistic principal…
Descriptors: College Choice, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Akers, Beth – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
Over the last two decades, prices in higher education have grown more quickly than prices in almost any other sector of the economy. Tuition inflation has been extensively examined. The examinations, however, have focused on a narrow set of explanations, none of which has revealed obvious opportunities for policy interventions that would slow this…
Descriptors: Tuition, Costs, Value Judgment, Competition
Catalina Morales Lema – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I use data from Chile to study the determinants of schooling trajectories. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on higher education, Chapter 3 on secondary education, and Chapter 4 on teachers. Chapter 1 explores the role of a socio-emotional ability, self-efficacy, in understanding why students with comparable qualifications transit…
Descriptors: Economics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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