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Messerer, Laura A. S.; Karst, Karina; Janke, Stefan – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Student dropout is a frequent phenomenon in higher education institutions that entails high costs for individuals, institutions, and society as a whole. Thus, it is crucial to identify protective factors regarding dropout in cases in which it could have been prevented. In line with Person-Environment Fit Theory, we assume that intrinsic motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment, Motivation
Muhammad Kashif Rahimoon – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2023
Strategy is planning about survival in a tough and competitive environment, and strategic enrollment management (SEM) is about higher education institutions exerting influence on student enrollment to generate tuition revenue. Although the global environment of the 21st century provides opportunities for improving enrollment from various parts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Enrollment, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Tucciarone, Kristy – College and University, 2021
This study investigates how universities can increase enrollment by advertising anxiety resources to prospective students during the college search process. Anxiety is classified as a mental health crisis on today's college campuses and is the leading concern for college students. There are eight major factors associated with anxiety among college…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Enrollment Management, Anxiety, College Bound Students
Bowman, R. Alan – Association for Institutional Research, 2021
The School of Management (SOM) at Union Graduate College (UGC) used student trajectories to forecast both individual course and total enrollments within and across various student categories. (The term "trajectory" refers to the enrollment pattern of the average student in a particular category.) The trajectories and the resultant…
Descriptors: Enrollment Projections, Business Schools, Graduate Students, Enrollment Management
Kyle L. McCarrell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For many open-enrolled higher education institutions, including community colleges, enrollment is dropping each semester creating significant financial challenges. While much research literature focuses on four-year colleges, little is known about the students who seek to enroll at community colleges. What is known is often evaluated using college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, College Choice, Community College Students
Lucas M. Simmons – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose for conducting the study was to describe the community, personal experiences, and life events of individuals from rural Arkansas communities in developing their decisions to attend college and how the community impacted their successful enrollment at the University of Arkansas. Specifically, the study set out to explore how rural…
Descriptors: College Choice, Rural Areas, College Enrollment, Enrollment Influences
Cierra Griffin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Career and College Promise Program, North Carolina's dual enrollment program, was designed to allow all eligible high school students a chance to participate in college courses prior to high school graduation. Although many high school students take advantage of this opportunity, eligible Black high school students in Bladen County do not…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, African American Students, High School Students, Enrollment Influences
Nabaneeta Biswas; Poulomi Dasgupta – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The United States has widely experimented with merit-based financial aid to make college more accessible and affordable for its youth. Varying in design and benefits, these state-run programs subsidize college costs for academically meritorious high-school graduates. While broadly linked to higher college attendance the distribution of aid…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Eligibility, Student Financial Aid, Change
Dina Batlivala Tresselt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using a mixed-methods approach, this research examines admissions practices and recruitment strategies within eight graduate-level, allied health sciences programs. The results highlight the characteristics of submitted, accepted, and matriculated students, and identifies, by program, if the recruitment strategies (e.g., marketing campaign…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Allied Health Occupations Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Aidan Enright; Joshua Bedi; Eileen McAnneny, Contributor – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2024
This paper examines the impact, characteristics, and entrepreneurial proclivities of foreign-born college graduates in the United States. A significant body of research has found that immigrants are more likely to start businesses than those born in the U.S., and the propensity of international students to concentrate in STEM fields indicates…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Graduates, Business Administration, Small Businesses
Adam Brian Nobile – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite many differences across Pennsylvania's rural school districts, band programs face similar recruitment, retention, and matriculation challenges. Rural school districts in Pennsylvania account for 235 of the 499 school districts in Pennsylvania while educating less than 20 percent of the student population in the state. In addition, rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Musicians, Enrollment Trends, Academic Persistence
Tamara L. Milbourn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the past 30 years, state funding for public higher education has decreased dramatically in the United States ("The Chronicle of Higher Education," 2014; National Education Association (NEA), 2022). As a result, many public universities have purposefully increased international student enrollment to help replace these vanishing state…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, College Environment
Blair, Peter Q.; Smetters, Kent – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead reducing admit rates. We show that straightforward reasons cannot explain this behavior. We propose a model where colleges compete on prestige, measured using relative selectivity or relative admit rates. A key comparative static of the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Competition, Reputation
Molina, Mauricio; Baumgartner, Erin; Bao, Katharine – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2023
In the Houston Independent School District (HISD), how far a student lives from their zoned school determines their access to school transportation. Per district policy, students must live at least 2 miles from their zoned school to be eligible for district-provided school transportation. The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) examined…
Descriptors: School Districts, Zoning, Geographic Location, Student Transportation
Andrews, Hans A. – Community College Enterprise, 2023
Recent years have seen a major decline in community college enrollments across the country. Although the market to attract secondary school students contains many pathways, the overall marketplace is very competitive as most schools are competing for the same body of students. The adult market is the largest and most neglected group of potential…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, School Holding Power, Community College Students, Adult Students