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Li, Mei; Shankar, Sriram; Tang, Kam Ki – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
This paper uses regression analysis to test if the universities performing less well according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world universities league tables are able to catch up with the top performers, and to identify national and institutional factors that could affect this catching up process. We have constructed a dataset of 461…
Descriptors: Universities, Performance, Institutional Characteristics, Private Colleges
Adams, James D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in Europe and East Asia has exceeded that of the U.S.,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Scientific Research, Universities