This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

Unlike previous studies on major choice of university students, this study considers a university's prestige in their … of 4-year university students in South Korea between 1981 and 2001. The study finds that a university's prestige has a …

framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to anticipate their future earnings. For that purpose … suggests that expected earnings have a statistically significant but quantitatively small impact on the allocation of students …

female and minority students to a particular major. The authors provide new evidence using micro-data from student records …

students' freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to … standards; all of which translate into students with weaker academic backgrounds being less likely to choose these majors …

This paper examines how model uncertainty affects students' choice of major. To account for this uncertainty, the … students apply a max-min operator to their optimization problem. We show analytically that greater uncertainty in a particular … students to major in science, technology, engineering, and math. To test the model's assumptions and predictions, we have …

public university dependent on the State of Sao Paulo. As with most Brazilian public universities, students select a major … preferences. However, for the most demanding majors (those that require higher grades from students), differences in major choice …