Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 6 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
| College Entrance Examinations | 7 |
| Selective Admission | 7 |
| Universities | 7 |
| Access to Education | 5 |
| Foreign Countries | 5 |
| Admission Criteria | 4 |
| Institutional Characteristics | 4 |
| College Applicants | 3 |
| Equal Education | 3 |
| Scores | 3 |
| Academic Achievement | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Academic Questions | 1 |
| Frontiers of Education in… | 1 |
| Higher Education Policy | 1 |
| Higher Education Research and… | 1 |
| Physical Review Physics… | 1 |
| Studies in Higher Education | 1 |
| Sutton Trust | 1 |
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 7 |
| Postsecondary Education | 6 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Graduate Record Examinations | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkSantelices, Maria Veronica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena; Venegas, Alejandra – Higher Education Policy, 2022
During the last ten years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started admission programs to increase equity in higher education that consider the achievement of students in the context of educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores persistence rates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Program Implementation, Equal Education
Mikkelsen, Nils J.; Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Despite limiting access to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, the practice of using hard or soft Graduate Record Examination (GRE) cutoff scores in physics graduate program admissions is still a popular method for reducing the pool of applicants. The present study considers whether the undergraduate institutions of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Admission Criteria, Selective Admission, Scores
Molla, Tebeje; Harvey, Andrew; Sellar, Sam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
This article explores factors contributing to unequal patterns of access to languages other than English (LOTE) in Australian universities. A critical analysis of qualitative and quantitative data generated through interviews, surveys and document analysis reveals that underrepresentation in LOTE courses in Australian universities is attributable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Montacute, Rebecca; Cullinane, Carl – Sutton Trust, 2018
In 2011, the Sutton Trust published "Degrees of Success," which looked at university acceptance rates and how they differ by school type and area, finding state school pupils were considerably less likely to go to top universities than independent or grammar school pupils. "Access to Advantage" returns to the issues raised in…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Influences, Universities, Access to Education
Ma, Yingyi; Wang, Lifang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
As the Chinese mainland has transitioned from elite to mass higher education, the race to attend university has escalated to become a race to attend selective universities. This study focuses on rural female university students and explores how they make sense of their higher education admission experiences. We rationalize that the inquiry into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Rural Areas, Females
Santelices, María Verónica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
During the last 10 years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started to implement admissions programs that consider the achievement of students in the context of the educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores the program theories in a sample of these…
Descriptors: College Admission, Equal Education, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
Wood, Thomas E. – Academic Questions, 2003
Elite universities will be returning to court to clarify the murky ruling in "Grutter v. Bollinger". Thomas E. Wood predicts that judges will again have to pass judgment on the constitutionality of dubious scheming by elite universities to achieve their critical mass of black students legitimately--without resort to tacit quotas and…
Descriptors: Judges, Race, Court Litigation, Selective Admission
