admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high … an interest in their graduates being successful, but little interest in where students come from or where they go after … states in fact gain financially when public universities admit additional out-of-state students. This is because attending a …

proposed to prevent such shortages is increased federal support for graduate students. Lost in the policy debate, however, has …-producing universities do respond to changes in external support for graduate students by altering the number of students they support on … responses are quite small. On average, an increase of 100 in the number of students supported by external funds is estimated to …

The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and … students from China. Given the concentration of high quality colleges and universities in the U.S., there has been a … substantial increase in the demand for enrollment among students from abroad. At the same time, substantial declines in state …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

(supply effects). We also find that when a university suffers a negative endowment shock that is large relative to its …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions … process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at random, offering them ten hours of individualized college advising … have influenced the choice of where the students applied to college. We estimate that students offered counseling were 7 …