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Kyongsei Sohn; Sandeep Singh; John T. Gardner – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
New York State (NYS) launched the Excelsior Scholarship in 2017. It is designed to make college tuition-free for students who attend publicly funded institutions and meet certain criteria. Is this scholarship a good investment for taxpayers of NYS? How long does it take taxpayers to recover their investment? This case analysis takes a perspective…
Descriptors: Scholarships, State Programs, Taxes, Tuition
Haas, Christina; Hadjar, Andreas – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
With the increasing availability of high-quality longitudinal data on students in higher education, scholars' interest in how students proceed through higher education has risen. So far, the research field is diverse in theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Thus, based on 27 studies published in (higher) education research…
Descriptors: College Students, College Attendance, Time to Degree, Literature Reviews
McAlpine, Lynn; Castello, Montserrat; Pyhaltö, Kirsi – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, universities have also invested in policies to monitor satisfaction, retention, and timely completion--and researchers have expanded the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Educational Policy, Educational Experience, Doctoral Programs
Blau, Gary; Mittal, Neha; Schirmer, Michael; Ozkan, Bora – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Online education continues to grow at business schools. The authors compared undergraduate business student perceptions across three different classroom learning delivery environments: online, hybrid, and face to face. Based on the survey responses using two independent samples, the authors' analyses found that students who preferred online…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Business Administration Education
Kilgore, Wendy – College and University, 2019
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRO) examined eight areas of research interest to our members in 2018. They had enough longitudinal data to make comparisons of 2018 data to years past. For example, they repeated the registrar's career profile report and learned there will be a large number of…
Descriptors: Registrars (School), Admissions Officers, Educational Research, Information Management
LaViolet, Tania; Wyner, Josh – Aspen Institute, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting financial crisis are forcing millions of students to reconsider their educational plans--a development that's likely to increase the number of students transferring among institutions in the years ahead. Affordable and close to home, community colleges in particular are now poised to attract more students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Transfer Students, Educational Finance
Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
The authors update prior analyses of the undergraduate origins of individuals who earn a PhD in economics in the United States. They include the list of the top institutions worldwide graduating the largest number of undergraduates who subsequently earn an economics PhD from a U.S. university and lists of American institutions with the largest…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Economics Education, Doctoral Degrees, Probability
Ginder, Scott A.; Kelly-Reid, Janice E.; Mann, Farrah B. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This "First Look" presents findings from the provisional data of the IPEDS winter 2014-15 data collection, which included four survey components: (1) Graduation Rates (GR); (2) 200 Percent Graduation Rates (GR200); (3) Student Financial Aid (SFA); and (4) Admissions (ADM). GR and GR200 present graduation rates for selected cohorts within…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Student Financial Aid, College Admission, Tables (Data)
Caruth, Gail D.; Caruth, Donald L. – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
What is the role of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) today? This is not a new question. In 1903, William James questioned the value of the degree as an indicator of teaching ability. Unfortunately, the issue James raised has never been resolved. Move forward in time to 1990. Theodore Ziolkowski essentially agreed with James, but raised additional…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Philosophy, Academic Degrees, Higher Education
Knorr, Ron – SRATE Journal, 2012
Since their introduction to teacher education programs in the 1980s, teacher education cohorts have become a standard scheme of organization in teacher preparation programs. This literature review notes some common characteristics and issues in cohort operations. Cohorts contain a standard academic core, class scheduling, and timeline to program…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Socialization, Teacher Education Programs, Guidance
Baum, Sandy; Kurose, Charles; McPherson, Michael – Future of Children, 2013
This overview of postsecondary education in the United States reviews the dramatic changes over the past fifty years in the students who go to college, the institutions that produce higher education, and the ways it is financed. The article, by Sandy Baum, Charles Kurose, and Michael McPherson, creates the context for the articles that follow on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics
Howley, Caitlin; Johnson, Jerry; Passa, Aikaterini; Uekawa, Kazuaki – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the college enrollment and persistence rates of rural high schools in Pennsylvania; the types of postsecondary institutions in which students from such schools enroll; and the student, school, and college characteristics associated with enrollment and persistence outcomes. The study used extant data from…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, College Bound Students, Postsecondary Education
Kyllonen, Patrick C.; Walters, Alyssa M.; Kaufman, James C. – ETS Research Report Series, 2011
This report reviews the literature on noncognitive and other background predictors (e.g., personality, attitudes, and interests) as it pertains to graduate education. The first section reviews measures typically used in studies of graduate school outcomes, such as attrition and time to degree. A review of qualities faculty members and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Gross, Jacob P. K.; Cekic, Osman; Hossler, Don; Hillman, Nick – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2009
Federal higher education policy has shifted over the past few decades from grants to loans as the primary means for providing access to postsecondary education for low- and moderate-income families. With this shift, policy makers have begun tracking student loan default rates as a key indicator of the efficacy of student loan programs. This effort…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Family Income, Loan Default, Literature Reviews
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2006
The time taken for students to complete their degrees is a persistent concern. A bachelor's degree is often thought of as being a four-year program, but many students take well over four years to graduate. Slow progress toward graduation is costly to students, who often have to take out loans for tuition and living costs. In addition, prolonged…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, High School Graduates, College Freshmen, College Programs
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