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Delval, Anne-Sophie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This article aims to bring back into circulation Bourdieu's concept of 'refuge school' to analyse transnational migration for higher education, of privileged students who cannot access the most academically selective institutions. Through the case study of Swiss Hospitality Management Schools (SHMS), I investigate the discursive strategy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Advantaged, College Students
Jared Michael Scharpen – Online Submission, 2024
Community colleges, known for their open access and inclusion, have seen consistent enrollment declines for several years. At Outward Flats Community College, the research setting in this study, student enrollment has consistently declined and a widening admission yield gap between students of color and white students occurred. The researcher…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Guan, Lihang; Mok, Ka Ho Joshua; Yu, Baohua – Cogent Education, 2023
Chinese international students compose the largest group of full-tuition-paying students globally and are important to hosting destinations both culturally and financially. However, the obstructed international mobility caused by COVID-19 has changed their international applications. As the world gradually resumes its previous mobility level, it…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Marketing
Brasher, Andrew; Whitelock, Denise; Holmes, Wayne; Pozzi, Francesca; Persico, Donatella; Manganello, Flavio; Passarelli, Marcello; Sangrà, Albert – European Journal of Education, 2022
Comparing universities and courses is of interest to a variety of stakeholders including potential students, policy makers, news and media organisations, ranking providers, and universities themselves. There are a range of existing university ranking schemes that provide comparisons (e.g. Academic Ranking of World Universities) but typically these…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Comparative Education, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation
Haniya, Osama K.; Said, Hamdan – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2022
This research aimed to identify the influential factors contributing to the international students' choice of Malaysian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), focusing on the expected benefits. Additionally, the study contributes to the development of the higher education sector in Malaysia by providing recommendations to the HEIs based on the…
Descriptors: College Choice, Higher Education, Reliability, Student Attitudes
Georgette T. Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A review of the literature revealed the need to further explore continuing-generation college students attending community colleges. This case study sought to understand the choice process of continuing-generation, direct-entry college students who enrolled in Miami Dade College (MDC), a baccalaureate community college. This research was planned…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Choice, Costs, Paying for College
Guiaké, Mathias; Chen, Dianbing; Zhang, Tianxue – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
The number of countries engaged in providing international education has grown consistently over the years. Traditionally, European countries and the US have been regarded as the only dominant destinations for overseas students. However, recent studies indicated that several new countries have emerged as study destinations. China, one of them, is…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Decision Making, Study Abroad, Higher Education
Hosier, Maeve; Hoolash, Bheshaj Kumar Ashley – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper explores the effect of methodological choice on global Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) rankings, and the effect of choices regarding League Table and Ranking Systems (LTRSs) upon decision-making and policy. LTRSs are identified as heuristics to aid decision-making about HEIs. The paper examines the methodological choices commonly…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, Achievement Rating, Reputation
Wut, Tai-Ming; Xu, Jing; Lee, Stephanie Wing – Education Sciences, 2022
Each year, final year high school students choose the university that they would prefer to attend. Past studies have found that family, friends, course availability, university reputation, distances from home, and job prospects were factors affecting students' choice of university. However, the relative weight of these factors might have changed…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Secondary School Students, Peer Influence
Cook, Amanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Lackluster BA completion rates have made it clear that improving postsecondary outcomes in the U.S. is not simply a matter of raising college enrollment rates. In addition to increasing the number of people who attend college, it is also important to increase the number of people who graduate. Over the years, scholars have identified many factors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, College Choice, Student School Relationship
Meyer, Melanie S.; Cranmore, Jeff; Rinn, Anne N.; Hodges, Jaret – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2021
When choosing a college, high school students and those who guide them through the process must consider the complex interactions between student-level and institution-level variables in order to achieve an optimal person-environment fit. Ten academically advanced high school students who had chosen and committed to attending a college…
Descriptors: College Choice, Advanced Students, High School Seniors, Decision Making
Eble, Alex; Hu, Feng – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Hundreds of colleges have changed their names to signal higher quality. We estimate how this affects college choice and the labor market performance of college graduates. Administrative data show that name-changing colleges enroll higher-aptitude students, with larger effects for attractive-but-misleading name changes and among students with less…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
Jennifer L. Steele – Education Economics, 2024
The question of why postsecondary institutions produce different labor market outcomes is difficult to answer due to unobserved student characteristics. Here, I leverage students' geographic proximity to three classifications of postsecondary institutions -- earnings-enhancing, competitive, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Black Colleges, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
Sapp, Sarah Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Institutions of higher learning today rely on tuition dollars to function. During a time when the pool of high school graduates is shrinking, colleges and universities must look to alternative target markets to meet enrollment goals, including those transferring from community college. Community college transfers have unique attributes that…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges
Wilson, Jeffery L. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
In this paper, an understanding of how an elite institution pursues diversity initiatives is explored. Research afforded a better understanding of strategies adopted for recruitment and retention whereby positive results were reported after implementation. Removing barriers that may prevent marginalized populations from enrolling were critical…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Student Diversity, Barriers, Disadvantaged