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Hafner, Dedra – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2019
This publication features tons of helpful advice for students who are ready to begin the college search. Madison, Kaethe, Maria, George, and Santi are former college students who share honest stories and things to think about when considering college, such as the location and size of the college, making good choices, social opportunities &…
Descriptors: College Choice, Student Experience, Geographic Location, School Size
Haywood, Helen; Scullion, Richard – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This paper challenges the dominant discourse that Higher Education (HE) choice is a consumer choice and questions assumptions underpinning government policy and HE marketing. HE choice is largely viewed as a rational, decontextualised process. However, this interpretivist study found it to be much more complex, and to be about relationships and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Choice, Parent Attitudes, Parent Student Relationship
Evans, John Jamal – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explored the college choice decisions for students who undermatched to a community college during their college choice process. Specifically, this project utilized a qualitative multi-site case study design to understand the college choice process for students who were admitted into a four-year institution but chose to enroll in a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Two Year College Students, College Choice
Klasik, Daniel; Blagg, Kristin; Pekor, Zachary – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2018
The U.S. has a stratified hierarchy of college and universities. Consequences of this stratification include large disparities in the returns to higher education between levels of postsecondary institutions, and gaps by race and income in terms of where students enroll that, together, have the potential to reproduce longstanding social inequality.…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
Charles L. Keenum – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A comparison of choices of first-generation and non-first-generation Mississippi College students make to obtain a higher education was conducted by survey instrument and data analysis. The research was conducted to compare choices including the people influencing the student's choice to obtain a higher education, motivating factors of where to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Students, Decision Making, College Attendance
Tucker, Laura Packard; Hanson, Devlin; Pergamit, Michael; Norwitt, Jonah; Gedo, Shannon – Urban Institute, 2023
Young people with foster care history need financial support to attain their educational goals. Are these young people getting the financial support they need for college? How do their financial aid packages compare with those of their peers? Does the Education and Training Voucher program meet their needs? If not, how can it be improved? To…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Costs
Luque-Martínez, Teodoro; del Barrio-García, Salvador; Doña-Toledo, Luis; Faraoni, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Knowledge of the value generated within higher education institutions is of great interest for various agents, particularly managers, as well as governments and society. University mission statements and their scope complicate any comparable measurement of the effects each university may have within a particular region. Perhaps the most adequate…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Universities, Higher Education, Expenditures
Van den Broeck, Laura; Vandelannote, Isis; Demanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke – Educational Review, 2023
Recent research has increasingly been studying the long-lasting effects of secondary education structures and processes on higher education (HE) outcomes. While the influence of socioeconomic composition on higher education enrolment is established, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We posit that the composition effect partially runs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Expectation, Educational Attainment
Jafar, Hayfa; Legusov, Oleg – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This qualitative study examined the process whereby international college students from various countries choose their country of study, type of institution, specific college, and program. It identified and explored the relative importance of each decision-making factor. Fifty-five international students attending four Greater Toronto Area (GTA)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, College Choice, College Bound Students, Foreign Students
Acton, Riley – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
Recent efforts to increase college access and completion concentrate on reducing tuition rates at community colleges, but researchers and policy makers alike have expressed concern that such reductions may not lead to long-term gains in college completion. In this paper, I use detailed data on students' college enrollment and completion outcomes…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Paying for College, Tuition
Bound, John; Simon, Andrew – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Previous measures of the incidence of public investment in higher education focus on the transfer to public college students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss potential general equilibrium effects on the private college and labor markets. Changes in the public college…
Descriptors: College Choice, Incidence, Higher Education, State Colleges
Renn, Kristen A.; Reason, Robert D. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2021
In this book, the authors bring together in one place essential information about college students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, they present an introduction to studying student characteristics, college choice and enrollment patterns, institutional types and environments, student learning, persistence,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Characteristics, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education
Zhang, Liang – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
The Post-9/11 GI Bill represents significant public investment in and commitment to veterans who have served in the armed forces and those who will serve in the future. Recent studies have examined its effect on veterans' college participation. In this study, Liang Zhang uses data from four waves of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study…
Descriptors: College Choice, Federal Legislation, Veterans, Armed Forces
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2022
Nearly all parents and guardians of college-bound high school students are involved in the college search process. Most institutions understand this and would say they communicate with those families or provide information for them. However, is that information really reaching families? Is it accessible, comprehensible, and useful to them? Ruffalo…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family Involvement, College Bound Students, High School Students
Burnett, Christopher A. – Educational Policy, 2022
Tuition-dependent colleges and universities face increasing competition for students. This study examined whether accreditation sanctions might serve as signals of quality and relate to enrollment. Results of a panel analysis showed enrollment declined for institutions after being placed on sanction with their regional accreditor. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Tuition, Accreditation (Institutions), Sanctions, Competition