Complete College Tennessee Act articulates a plan to address the need for better-educated Tennesseans as the state recovers from the recession.

This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In equilibrium, one country offers high educational quality for high tuition fees, while the other country provides a low quality and charges low fees. The quality in the high quality...

Many higher education institutions use admission criteria to match students with the educational requirements of the institution, thereby increasing the level of success of their students and allocating limited enrollment space in some cases. This study uses two different approaches to identify...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is known as a non-parametric method to evaluate the relative efficiencies of a set of homogenous decision-making units (DMUs) (i.e., banking, health, education, etc.) that use multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs. DEA models also have applications for...

This study aims to analyze the role of university education in the development of entrepreneurial vocations among students, reconsidering the prevalent approach of higher education institutions in the generation of human capital for society. Specifically, we present some results of a comparison...

University environment is experiencing important changes that have to be managed in order to ensure universities' competitiveness. In recent years, Spanish university institutions, as other institutions in their immediate surroundings, have had to face an increasingly competitive environment. In...

This work-in-progress paper deals with human factor of the front-line (teachers and administrative staff) in higher education. Students are active participants who shape the service experience. The customers who do not behave according to standard (so-called jaycustomers), we define with the...

Nowadays, university students must achieve several generic and specific competences during their studies and among these competences we find ethics. Given that a new economic model is possible through the "bio-economy" approach - which holds up that the economic development should be sustainable...