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Michael L. Nieswiadomy – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
In this article, the author updates his prior studies of LSAT® scores (Nieswiadomy 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2017) using current data for 2022-23 law school applicants, finding that economics majors remain at or near the top of all applicants. Results of the previous studies showing economics majors scored well on the LSAT® have often been posted on…
Descriptors: Economics Education, College Entrance Examinations, Law Schools, Scores
Elle Ting – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
Direct Admissions is a system developed and piloted recently in the US that defaults graduating high school students into post-secondary admittance by data-matching their profiles (transcripts, standardized test scores, and prerequisites) with institutions' preset eligibility criteria. As applicant and institutional interest in direct admissions…
Descriptors: College Admission, Student Characteristics, Profiles, Standardized Tests
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Nan Zhou; Qiang Li; Yanbo Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
Sino-foreign cooperative universities (SFCU) represent the advanced manifestation of transnational education in China and has profoundly shaped the country's higher education landscape. Despite the tremendous development of SFCUs, there is limited research on the motivations and driving factors of students choosing to study at SFCUs. To bridge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, College Choice, International Education
Dan Goldhaber; Roddy Theobald; Amy Roth McDuffie; David Slavit; Jennifer Dechaine-Berkas; John M. Krieg; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Who ends up in the teacher workforce is greatly influenced by who is admitted into teacher education programs (TEPs). To better understand how the preferences of teacher education faculty might shape admissions of STEM teacher candidates, we surveyed faculty who teach content or methods courses to STEM teacher candidates across five universities.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers, Courses
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2024
The 2024 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report is the 18th annual progress report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system. These priorities were developed by the 2003 LR 174 Higher Education Task…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, School Statistics, Enrollment