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Azzone, Giovanni; Soncin, Mara – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
When investigating students' motivations to enrol in university, a wide range of elements related to the overall student experience should be taken into account. The current study moves from this point to analyse students' choice factors from a survey completed by 27,504 students across 23 Italian institutions by means of a logistic principal…
Descriptors: College Choice, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Akers, Beth – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
Over the last two decades, prices in higher education have grown more quickly than prices in almost any other sector of the economy. Tuition inflation has been extensively examined. The examinations, however, have focused on a narrow set of explanations, none of which has revealed obvious opportunities for policy interventions that would slow this…
Descriptors: Tuition, Costs, Value Judgment, Competition
Catalina Morales Lema – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I use data from Chile to study the determinants of schooling trajectories. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on higher education, Chapter 3 on secondary education, and Chapter 4 on teachers. Chapter 1 explores the role of a socio-emotional ability, self-efficacy, in understanding why students with comparable qualifications transit…
Descriptors: Economics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Fabiola M. Alba Vivar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three essays focused on policies that hold the potential to reduce gender and socioeconomic gaps in the developing world. The first two chapters focus on higher education while the last chapter focuses on STEM gender gaps during primary school. Chapter 1 looks at the impacts of new transportation infrastructure on…
Descriptors: Development, Economics, Policy, Sex
Ponjuán, Luis; Hernández, Susana – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2021
This article explored Latino male students' educational experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI), Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), and Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Texas. Yosso's concept of Community Cultural Wealth was used. The study revealed that Latino male students, regardless of the higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Males
Heckman, Stuart J.; Letkiewicz, Jodi C. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2021
This exploratory study examines academic and labor market risks associated with investments in higher education by synthesizing the literature regarding risky higher education choices and extending the research using the 2014 National Student Financial Wellness Study, a national sample of college students. Three phenomena are analyzed to support…
Descriptors: Risk, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Money Management
Guzmán, Pamela; Cifuentes Gomez, Gonzalo; Santelices, Maria Veronica – Educational Research, 2021
Background: The transition of high school students to higher education can be an overwhelming experience which may impact on academic outcomes. Despite increases in access, course completion rates remain problematic in Chile. Students' expectations of higher education can play an important role in their decision-making, especially in terms of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, High School Seniors
Hornor, Tara – College Student Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine veterans' educational intentions as well as the factors influencing their college choices. Individual interviews were conducted with 30 veterans separating from military service who were eligible for military educational benefits. Results indicated 80 percent of veterans planned to utilize their military…
Descriptors: Veterans, Veterans Education, College Choice, Student Educational Objectives
Smith, Andre; Kant, Sudarsan – Journal of Negro Education, 2021
Harris-Stowe State University is a relatively small university located in Missouri's largest metropolitan area. Yet the students at Harris-Stowe are clearly different from the students at the other eleven Missouri public universities. The student body of Harris-Stowe is predominantly African American, over 85 percent. Harris-Stowe State University…
Descriptors: State Universities, African American Students, College Students, State Aid
Carmen L. Araoz, Editor – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
The American Talent Initiative's Student Success Research Grant Program supported research studies aimed at deepening our understanding of the institutional practices and strategies that can improve student success at high-graduation-rate institutions. The findings will offer actionable recommendations for supporting lower-income students, while…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Sener, Sabriye; Gün, Süleyman – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study aims to shed light on the preferences and problems of Erasmus+ exchange programme students before and during the mobility process. The research was organized in qualitative research method phenomenological design. The participants of the study were 21 incoming Erasmus+ students having studied at a state university in Turkey at 2015-2016…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Student Exchange Programs
van Zanten, Agnès – Comparative Education, 2019
This article focuses on the interplay between institutional arrangements, family strategies, and market devices in the transition to higher education (HE) in France with a view to documenting both persistent features of the French 'conservative' educational regime and recent changes, in particular those related to neo-liberal influences. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Institutional Characteristics
Yi, Joseph; Jung, Gowoon – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
This paper analyses the representation of international education in the Korean print media, by comparing texts produced by the leading conservative ("Chosun") and progressive ("Hankyoreh") newspapers in 1997 and 2014 (N = 271 articles). We find a major expansion and diversification of media articles on international education,…
Descriptors: International Education, Newspapers, Discourse Analysis, Correlation
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill – Centre for Economic Performance, 2019
This paper examines inequalities in the match between student quality and university quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject (course) level, based on student academic attainment, and graduate earnings. We find that students from lower…
Descriptors: Student College Relationship, Educational Attainment, Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences
Garcia, Stephanie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative study analyzed the attitudes and perceptions of Latino migrant students who were enrolled in the Project Based Research course, towards post-secondary STEM degrees. This study centered around ten Latino migrant students, 18-21 years of age who attended a Title I high school in South Texas. All participants took the Project Based…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Immigrants, Postsecondary Education, STEM Education