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Early Careers of Graduates from Private and Public Universities in Germany: A Comparison of Income Differences Regarding the First Employment
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Herrmann, Sonja; Nagel, Christian – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Research estimating the outcomes of higher education in Germany has widely ignored the private educational sector. This study focuses on labour market returns in terms of the income of graduates from private higher education institutions in Germany. Using data from the National Education Panel Study (NEPS) the results of the Bayesian regression…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Private Colleges, Public Colleges
Persistent Cost Efficiency at Public Community Colleges in the US: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Titus, Marvin A.; Vamosiu, Adriana; Buenaflor, Shannon Hayes; Lukszo, Casey Maliszewski – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This study utilizes an extensive panel data set spanning 15 years (2004-2018) and 752 public community colleges to investigate operating costs and persistent cost efficiency at public community colleges in the United States. We employ a generalized true random effects (GTRE) regression model that takes into account spatial correlation of costs…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Costs, Cost Effectiveness
Did the Recession Impact Student Success? Relationships of Finances, Staffing and Institutional Type on Retention
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Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Downey, Jillian; Thompson, Katherine; Genschel, Ulrike – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Economic recessions impact higher education institutions in complex ways. Several analyses have examined the influence of the 2007-2009 recession on tuition, enrollments, revenues, and expenditures, but the connection of these resource allocation patterns to a student success outcome--namely, retention--is limited. This study examined…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Higher Education, Tuition, Enrollment
Funding and Focus: Resource Dependence in Public Higher Education
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Fowles, Jacob – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Utilizing resource dependence theory, this study investigates the relationship between institutional reliance on net tuition dollars as a source of revenue and institutional expenditures for education and related activities at public, four-year institutions of higher education in the United States. Drawing on an 11-year panel of university-level…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Tuition, Income, Expenditures
Tuition Discounting for Revenue Management
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Hillman, Nicholas W. – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Over the past decade, institutionally-funded financial aid (or "tuition discounts") have been the fastest-growing item within most public four-year college and university operating budgets. One explanation for this trend is due to the changing structure of public colleges' revenue streams, as tuition and fees have replaced state appropriations as…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Income, Educational Finance, Tuition
How Do Revenue Variations Affect Expenditures within U.S. Research Universities?
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Leslie, Larry L.; Slaughter, Sheila; Taylor, Barrett J.; Zhang, Liang – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Using Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) figures on the 96 Research Extensive Institution in academic year 2007-2008, we employ panel data from academic year 1984-1985 to 2007-2008 to identify revenue-expenditure relationships. Although we consider a wide range of functional expenditure categories, we focus our analysis on…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Research Universities, Private Colleges, Income