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 …

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 …

The paper presents the results of research related to students' perception of enhancing their critical thinking during … public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in order to investigate students' perception of enhancing their critical … is to find if BH students are aware of the necessity to enhance their critical thinking abilities during their studies in …

In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of …

providing MOOC on France Université Numérique (FUN), a MOOC platform. We find that new students intake of universities offering … students enrolled in online and traditional programs as well to media coverage, we see two intertwined explanations for this … positive relationship. One relates to the enhanced information available to students when making their enrollment decision; the …

From 1 January 2013, students in New Zealand who entered postgraduate qualifications other than Honours were no longer … students' choices. We use a student's allowance receipt as an undergraduate or her borrowing for course fees as a postgraduate …-ineligible students who enter an affected postgraduate qualification or an unaffected Honours degree. Although we are not able to cleanly …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

-learning environment in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach A convenience sample of 268 students from 3 …. Additionally, students’ experience from their accounting studies was explored in relation to a number of demographic … data was collected only from ATEIs students, so the generalization of findings needs attention Originality/value To the …