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Schuette, Anthony – Trellis Company, 2023
Recent discussions on enrollment in higher education have centered around the "Enrollment Cliff." The notion holds that due to changing demographics, colleges and universities across the U.S. will see a dramatic decline in enrollment starting in 2025. The enrollment cliff poses legitimate challenges to schools around the country. Schools…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, College Enrollment, Population Trends, Economics
Campbell, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the technological world continues to grow and expand, the use of social media marketing continues to increase. Graduate programs looking to increase the number of applications received can turn to Facebook to market their programs. This study looks at the use of self-presentation, from a graduate program level of Facebook use, to create content…
Descriptors: Social Media, Marketing, Student Recruitment, Graduate Study
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Curran, F. Chris – Research in Higher Education, 2022
For the past decade and a half, many institutions of higher education have asked about high school disciplinary experiences, including suspensions, on their applications. Advocates have argued that this "discipline box" has a negative effect on suspended students' likelihood to apply and be accepted to institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Discipline, Suspension, College Admission
Román Andrés Zárate; Martín Carbajal; María Pía Basurto; Manuel Barrón – Blueprint Labs, 2024
Without standardized tests, college admissions may reward high schools' reputation over effectiveness--a phenomenon we study in Peru. We first estimate the impact of selective public exam schools on college outcomes by leveraging the admissions mechanism in a single- and multiple-offers RDD. Despite no conclusive evidence of learning gains,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Standardized Tests, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Zachary W. Taylor – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2024
Although United States (U.S.) community college enrollment rose in 2023, the sector has contracted by 37% since 2010, representing millions of students. As a result, community college practitioners should ensure that individuals understand financial aid information to apply for aid and access community colleges. Here, this study gathered federal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Readability, Instructional Materials
Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants from disadvantaged groups. To inform this debate, we…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Letters (Correspondence), Disadvantaged Youth
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Azadianbojnordi, Mah; Bakhtiarpour, Saeed; Makvandi, Behnam; Ehteshamizadeh, Parvin – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2022
In Iran, a large number of adolescents compete every year to enter university, given the better job opportunities that may exist after graduation. The hope of having more education affects students' academic engagement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic hope and academic engagement with the mediating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement, College Applicants
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Grace E. Thiel; Celeste M. Murtha; Jennifer F. Dennis; Mari Hopper – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Kansas City University offers a Clinical Anatomy Fellowship which enrolls nine medical students during each academic year and provides training in research, teaching, and advanced anatomical topics. The Fellows practice as novice educators, working alongside Anatomy faculty to teach medical students in the Gross Anatomy laboratory. However, little…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Graduate Medical Education, Fellowships, Anatomy
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Oscar Espinoza; Luis Sandoval; Luis Eduardo González; Bruno Corradi; Noel McGinn; Trinidad Vera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
How does a policy of free tuition affect student applications to universities? This article assesses how free tuition influences applications in terms of the selectivity of the university, length of the degree program, cost of the program, and application to a program in the STEM field. The study based on a quasi-experimental design was carried…
Descriptors: Tuition, College Choice, Costs, Program Content
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Neuman, Eric J.; Briggs, Kristie – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
We examine whether geography is related to online MBA program demand. Although online education seemingly mitigates geographical location as a barrier to attracting students, the location may still play a role in establishing students' familiarity with schools and with creating competition among neighboring institutions. Using archival data, we…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Online Courses, Geographic Location
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick; Weerapana, Akila – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals, but because who is in a field may shape what is studied by it. If increasing the rate of majoring in mathematically-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education, Economics, Majors (Students)
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Arce, Alvaro J.; Young, Michael J. – International Journal of Testing, 2022
The paper argues that contemporary test validity theory places the consequences of testing on the lives of all college applicants at the back of the test validation argument. It introduces the notion of test efficacy as a process to gather evidence on claims on consequences of testing on all college applicants that can be traced back to validity.…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Theory, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations
Diver, Colin – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Since "U.S. News & World Report" first published a college ranking in 1983, the rankings industry has become a self-appointed judge, declaring winners and losers among America's colleges and universities. In this revealing account, Colin Diver shows how popular rankings have induced college applicants to focus solely on pedigree and…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Higher Education, Colleges, Universities
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Travis K. Taylor; Rik Chakraborti; Niall Mahaney – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
This paper analyzes the impact of college athletic reclassification for educational institutions in the United States. Most of America's colleges and universities offer athletic opportunities for their students under NCAA governance. The level of competition and associated resource requirements range from relatively low (Division 3) to high…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Competition, Small Colleges, School Size
Robert Thomas Gutman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Low-income students are underrepresented at selective colleges. Most evaluative criteria used by admissions officers are correlated with income, including test scores and performance in high school. Inspired in part by the current state of the use of testing in college admissions, this study examines how the quality of colleges attended by…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Low Income Students, Admissions Officers, Admission Criteria
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