This research examines the relative impact of a broad variety of variables on the graduation rates of 283 four-year colleges and universities in the Midwest. It compares the relative importance of campus life (such as sports, number of student organizations and Greek life) to financial...

Nigeria`s Colleges of Education are presently losing interest in affiliation processes of Universities under which they award Bachelor and other degrees to their teaming students' population. This may not be unconnected with the excesses of these institutions in sharing proceeds from the fees...

Education is a social development, and highly educated those can inspire a society. Several factors affect academic achievements of students in higher education. In present study show that several factors that are affected by students. Data were collected from 100 graduate and post graduate...

Entrepreneurship is listed among the key competencies of the new generations. It is essential trait for the young people in the new, fast changing environment, no matter shell they link their careers with the small business or not. Consequently, the education systems can substantially contribute...

The rapid transformation of the socioeconomic, political, and technological context predetermines changes in the expectations for higher education institutions that face numerous profound challenges. In order to survive and develop under changing conditions, universities need to drastically...

This paper shows analytically that the basis between spot and futures contracts contains information about future returns of securities across the asset classes of commodities, equity indices, fixed income and foreign exchange. The bases in commodities are positively correlated with a leading...

We propose a computationally efficient method to construct nonparametric, heteroskedastic prediction bands for uncertainty quantification, with or without any user-specified predictive model. The data-adaptive prediction band is universally applicable with minimal distributional assumptions,...

We analyze a data set composed of academic records of undergraduates at the University of Oregon from 2000-2004. We find correlations of roughly 0.35 to 0.5 between SAT scores and upper division, in-major GPA (henceforth, GPA). Interestingly, low SAT scores do not preclude high performance in...