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Matthew D. Deeg; Amy L. Boone; Anna Chen; Trey Shirley – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Involvement in honors programs provides students an opportunity to grow academically, connect with like-minded peers, and reap tangible and intangible benefits. Understanding the motivations driving this involvement is a crucial task for honors program administrators and faculty alike as different motivations may influence how students engage and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Honors Curriculum, Decision Making, Course Selection (Students)
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Ibrahima F. Yaro; Jennifer Mize Smith – Journal of International Students, 2024
Black African students are increasingly choosing the United States as their preferred destination, and many choose to study at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate reasons that may influence their identification and commitment to those PWIs. We interviewed 20 sub-Saharan Africans at two…
Descriptors: Blacks, Predominantly White Institutions, Foreign Students, Decision Making
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Jyothish Asokkumar; Kannan Sekar; Angela Susan Mathew; Ronny Thomas – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be considered an important tool for professionals to reskill and upskill as well as a cost-efficient way to stay relevant. However, evidence-based research is still needed to identify why specific categories of people, especially professionals, take paid MOOCs. The paper aims to analyze the factors that…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Information Technology, Professional Personnel, Evidence Based Practice
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Chase M. Billingham; Shelley M. Kimelberg; Matthew O. Hunt – AERA Open, 2024
We utilize original survey data to examine factors influencing parental assessment of schools. When asked a series of questions about their evaluation of hypothetical schools in a survey experiment, respondents were given the option to select "don't know" and explain in their own words what additional information they would want to know…
Descriptors: School Safety, Parent Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics, Crime
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Zhu, Jiajia; Hou, Zhijin; Zhang, Hang; Wang, Danni; Jia, Yin; Flores, Lisa Y.; Chen, Shufang – Journal of Career Development, 2023
This study explored the association between two parental career expectations (reward/prestige and comfort/stability) and career indecisiveness with the moderation of gender in 523 Chinese undergraduates. We found that women undergraduates perceived lower parental reward/prestige and higher comfort/stability expectations than men. Perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Careers, Expectation, Parent Attitudes
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Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret; Sonja Kosunen; Nina Haltia – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
In the process of higher education choice, the prospective students compare and organise universities into a preference order, which indicates status hierarchies among institutions. In this study, the aim is to investigate how (and based on what) recent business graduates construct institutional hierarchies in the national higher education…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Institutional Characteristics, Student Attitudes, College Graduates
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Carolyn McNicholas; Rita Marcella – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
This paper explores the decision-making process of international non-EU postgraduates when choosing a qualification from a UK business school and proposes a new model which reflects the iterative, cyclical and continuous nature of the process. The degree of rigour and rationality employed in decision-making was often limited and influenced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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Catarina Doutor; Natália Alves – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: While the existing literature explores the internalization of higher education, a significant gap remains in comprehending the motivations behind international students choosing Portuguese higher education. This study aims to address this gap by examining the motivations of a specific group within Portuguese universities:…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Native Language, Foreign Students, College Choice
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Valmeekanathan, Akshara; Babcock, Carly; Ling, Brenton; Davey-Rothwell, Melissa A.; Holtgrave, David R.; Jessani, Nasreen S. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2021
Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTPs) have drawn attention as multidisciplinary institutional structures that broker evidence to policy and practice. University Research Centers (URCs) appear to serve as internal KTPs by fostering research collaboration as well as advocacy. This study's aim was to examine URCs within one American School of Public…
Descriptors: Universities, Research and Development Centers, Public Health, Evidence Based Practice
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Sanjay Krishnapratap Pawar; Ruby S. Chanda – Cogent Education, 2024
An evaluation of extant research reveals a significant blind spot around investigating the enrolment decision-making of Indian international students in the STEM fields. This study qualitatively explores the motivations of Indian international students to pursue a STEM Master's program in an industrialised country. To elicit pertinent information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, STEM Education, Student Motivation
Byron W. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As it becomes more difficult to predict enrollment outcomes and the decline in high school graduates' looms on the horizon, the ability of higher education leaders to understand what characteristics of the university brand are most compelling for prospective students is important to ensure enrollment objectives are met. This mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Institutional Characteristics, College Choice, Religious Colleges
Bleemer, Zachary; Kumar, Mukul; Mehta, Aashish; Muellerleile, Chris; Newfield, Christopher – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide where to go to college and what to study once they arrive. In "Metrics That Matter," coauthors Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield take a critical look at these metrics…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Universities
Brandon Lewis Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While university department heads are integral to the operation and culture of higher education institutions, they often experience little training or support to fulfill their complex and multifaceted role. At the same time, there is limited research on how heads come to understand their work or how such understandings shape their behavior. In…
Descriptors: Universities, Department Heads, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Nanath, Krishnadas; Sajjad, Ali; Kaitheri, Supriya – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: University selection in higher education is a complex task for aspirants from a decision-making perspective. This study first aims to understand the essential parameters that affect potential students' choice of higher education institutions. It then aims to explore how these parameters or priorities have changed given the impact of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, College Choice, Universities, College Bound Students
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Kevser Tasel-Jurkovic; Ipek Altinbasak-Farina – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
This study aims to develop a comprehensive HEI choice intention (CI) model to understand how social influence (SI), brand equity (BE), and HEI factors influence attitude toward HEI (HEIA) as well as how the HEI attitude is a mediator of the relationship of these variables with the HEI CI. Data collected from 1633 high school seniors via online…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Choice, Decision Making, Social Influences
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