Carnegie Mellon University is a private research institution of higher education that is housed in a city that has undergone, and is still undergoing, the change from a manufacturing hub to a center of knowledge enterprise. Although colleges and universities are part of a local oligopoly, CMU is...

The number of students of higher education rose significantly in Hungary in the nineties. Many people forecast the decrease of the income benefit of the higher qualification and the decline of the rates of return for investment in higher education. We analyse the time course of the difference...

: Education and particularly the higher education have the task not only to react to the quasi-globalization trends, but rather to play a role in the development of desirable future society, leading to qualitative changes designed to preserve the identity of diverse communities and tolerance...

This second part of the study, contains the presentation, in the same manner, of the wiewpoints on the last region in the acadmeic world map considered in my analysis: Europe. Of course, globalization and building a united Europe, strong growth of labour markets and capital flows, human...

This is a study initiated by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) that provides an overview on the state of blacks in higher education from 1986 through 2005. It focuses on bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees earned by black Americans. It also...

Common to the bulk of the “new” economic growth and development literature is the idea that the process by which less-developed countries break out of a poverty trap and achieve steady, self-sustaining growth in real per-capita income is predicated on persistent production and accumulation...

This research reports the results of a survey carried out by the Department of Economics of the National University of La Plata. Subjects were 4676 regular students of the school who participated on a voluntay basis. We have estimated the determinants of the students' performance. To this aim we...

Research for undergraduates has been a focus for researchers for quite some time. The purpose of this study is understanding the variables involved that may increase research skills among the student population in higher education. This literature review includes peer-reviewed articles between...

This study analyzes the level of self-esteem of freshmen indigenous students in the Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora, Navojoa Academic Unit for the period 2008-2009. The program school educational model Focus on Learning and Skills Student, supported by the Institutional...

There has been a rising interest in understanding better the impact of college choices on wages, an interest motivated by concerns about increasing wage inequalities, about increasing costs of elite colleges, and about the perceived increasing roles of highly educated individuals in maintaining...