Analyzing the peer assessment portion of the US News and World Report’s college rankings, we find that administrators …

state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …-income students who are less college-ready are not influenced by admissions certainty and are sensitive to college entrance exams …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers between 2004 and 2015 matched with college enrollment records, we … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students …

networks with different origins of international students, income growth, and exchange-rate fluctuations. Contrary to claims … that US-born students are crowded out, I find that international students increase schools' funding via tuition payments … recruit more students with high math scores. Lastly, states allocate more appropriations to universities that attract fewer …

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial … preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit …

final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique administrative data from a large private university on the East Coast from …-related classes affects major changes. We also control for other factors that may affect a student’s final major including: high … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students’ decisions …

In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants … for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns …

athletics departments based on UNESCO sports-specific criteria.Finally, Part IV proposes a reasonable means to reform …This paper calls for the massive redesign of U.S. intercollegiate athletics departments in light of their widespread … United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) about how collegiate athletics should fit within …

relationship between immigration and innovation at the university or firm level. Using new data and measurement techniques, we find … robust evidence that Chinese students make disproportionate contributions to the scientific output of their advisors and … departments. We attribute this result to a selection effect as it is relatively more difficult for Chinese students to gain …

diversity in student admissions and faculty recruitment using conjoint analysis, a method suited for estimating attitudes on … admissions and faculty recruitment. Midshipmen’s preferences with respect to gender are, however, less straightforward. In …