This paper compares the employment outcomes of liberal arts graduates from Dutch university colleges with those of their peers who pursued conventional, subject-specific bachelor's degrees. Using data from the Dutch National Alumni Survey, the analysis includes 14,933 respondents who completed a master's programme at a research university, with…

Latinos have become the largest minority group in American postsecondary education, a majority of whom attend two- or four-year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). However, little is known about labor market outcomes as result of attending these institutions. Using a unique student-level administrative database in Texas, and accounting for…

Recent research on economic returns to higher education in the United States suggests that those with the highest wage returns to a college degree are least likely to obtain one. We extend the study of heterogeneous returns to tertiary education across multiple institutional contexts, investigating how the relationship between wage returns and the…

Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93/03) of College Graduates, we use structural equation modeling to model the relationships between college major, values held in college, collegiate community service participation, and the post-college political participation of college graduates by public versus private…

Using a conceptual model, this study examines the variables associated with the "U.S. News and World Report" peer assessment ratings of graduate and professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. What are the correlates of prestige among the nation's leading graduate and professional schools, and are they consistent…

Follow-up studies of doctoral graduates at Ohio State and Michigan State are compared. The survey considered alumni perceptions of guidance committee activities, course work, comprehensive examinations, and dissertations. (Author/MLW)

Two competing models of the relationship between college graduates' perceived learning and satisfaction with the college experience are examined, one representing a true effect and one treating the relationship as an artifact of the halo effect. It is recommended that researchers be cautious in interpreting self-reports of learning and…

Two procedures for validating incomes self-reported in ranges by University of Kentucky doctoral graduates indicate that the self-report data are generally accurate. Comparison of nonrespondent income with respondent income in state income tax records reveals that nonrespondents average almost $3,500 less income during the year than did…

A study of the use of logit analysis for examining an institution's retention of graduate students determined that when the independent variables are categorical and the dependent variables are dichotomous, logit analysis is more appropriate than discriminant analysis or multiple regression. (MSE)

Patterns of doctoral study and subsequent career progress were compared for 756 men and women doctoral graduates in education at a research university. Work experience prior to doctoral study strongly predicted career progress for both genders. Affirmative action may have positively affected the careers of recent women doctorates. (Author/MLW)

A study compared student responses (n=137) on measures of trustworthiness and attitude when they were either just responding honestly or supposedly applying a graduate school or for a job. Results suggest students would modify their responses in some situations. Implications for use of honesty tests are examined. (MSE)

Two studies examining the effect of grade inflation on the piling up of grades in fewer grade categories and on the reliability of grade point averages found that reliability suffered significantly only in graduate study in which almost all grades were in two categories, A and B. Some other small effects were found in different rating scales. (MSE)

The relationship between academic achievement and the financial success of baccalaureate recipients in the workplace is the focal point of an investigation that covers the first 3 years following graduation. Employment activity and quarterly earnings of university baccalaureate recipients were tracked in a comprehensive study that merged state…

Transcripts of graduates of an elective studies degree program were compared with those of a group of traditional liberal arts graduates. Results indicated that both groups had similar numbers of credits, but nontraditional students completed courses in more departments and have slightly lower overall GPA's at graduation. (Author/LBH)

A study of social origin and educational measures in occupational status attainment of former college students found that status attainment in professional careers is related more to cognitive attributes of the college attended and educational performance. Nonprofessional career status is related more to affective attributes of the college…