Images of excellence: constructions of institutional prestige and reflections in the university choice process

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Baker ◽  
B. Brown
Keyword(s):  
University Choice ◽  
Choice Process ◽  
Institutional Prestige ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Students’ Decision Making in Selecting University in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Md. Aminul Islam ◽  
Nehal Hasnain Shoron
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
University Choice ◽  
Choice Process ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Scholarship Students ◽  
Students First ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Method Approach

This study investigates the factors that influence students’ decisions when choosing a university for higher education in Bangladesh. The study was conducted among students of two private universities in the country. A multi-method approach was adopted in collecting and analyzing data. The responses of the 153 participating students to the questionnaire are primarily described using descriptive statistics, e.g., frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, and rankings. Statistical tools like chi-square and ANOVA test are also applied where necessary. Results of the study indicate that the distance of the university from the students’ home plays an influential role in university choice process in the country. It is also found that there is a significant association between the level of education at which students first consider studying university and their choice about the university. Several other factors: university’s location, cost of tuition, availability of scholarship, students’ mother, friend and visits to campus play an influential role in university choice process.

scholarly journals Predicting the Variables That Determine University (Re-)Entrance as a Career Development Using Support Vector Machines with Recursive Feature Elimination: The Case of South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7365
Author(s):  
Taejung Park ◽  
Chayoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South Korea ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Recursive Feature Elimination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
University Choice ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Vector Machines ◽  
The University

The current study seeks to identify variables that affect the career decision-making of high school graduates with respect to the choice of university (re-)entrance in South Korea where education has great importance as a tool for self-cultivation and social prestige. For pattern recognition, we adopted a support vector machine with recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) with a big-data of survey of Korean college candidates. Based on the SVM-RFE analysis results, new enrollers were mostly affected by the mesosystems of interactions with parents, while re-enrollers were affected by the macrosystems of social awareness as well as individual estimates of talent and aptitude of individual systems. By predicting the variables that affect the high school graduates’ preparation for university re-entrance, some survey questions provide information on why they make the university choice based on interactions with their parents or acquaintances. Along with these empirical results, implications for future research are also presented.

scholarly journals FACTORS INFLUENCING THE UNIVERCITY CHOICE DECISIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Qui Van Tran ◽  
Thi Hao Cao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
College Choice ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽  
School Students ◽  
University Choice ◽  
School Year ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The University

In reality, there are many high school students who do not determine exactly the career and the university which they want to attend. As the result of an investigate of Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper, over 60 percents of students admit that they had not have good vocational guidance when they registered to the university [1]. Therefore, a conceptual model of factors influencing students' college choice was developed to indentify the key factors and to evaluate the level of influence of these factors on high school students' university choice decisions. The result of 227 valid questionares from grade 12 students, school year 2008-2009 at 5 high schools at Quang Ngai province indicated 5 main factors influencing to the students' college choice including factors on future occupation opportunity; factors on information available; factors on student characteristics; factors on fixed college characteristisc and factors significant persons. The result of multiple linear regression model confirmed the relationship between these five factors above and the high school students' university choice decisions with the theories are supported at the statistically significant level of 0.05. And from this result, proposing motions to help families, schools and education organizations have practical approaches in order to well orient create good conditions for high school students to have the best university choices.

Understanding University Choice Decisions of Turkish Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 508-537
Author(s):  
Selin Kucukkancabas Esen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
University Choice ◽  
Campus Visit ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Choice Literature

This chapter is designed to provide insights as to how different elements of university characteristics, campus visit, information sources, and students' personal characteristics influence their university behaviors directly and indirectly through their effects on university-related attitudes. Proposed relationships are tested with data collected from 421 respondents through structured questionnaires. This study enriches the university choice literature by investigating the effects of various university choice factors on both attitudinal and behavioral responses. As expected, it is found that while controlling other factors there is a positive relationship between students' attitudes toward university and preference for a university. Results provide evidence that some factors have a significant effect only on students' attitudinal responses, while some have a significant effect on behavioral responses. Unexpectedly, campus visit does not act as a moderator in the relationship between university perceptions and attitude toward university.

“A Wedding Ceremony Between Industry and the University”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Undergraduate Instruction ◽  
Institutional Prestige ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses the rising ethos of affluence in higher education, which had profound implications for colleges and universities. Whereas earlier in the century, commercialism had led a growing number of Americans to value higher education as a means by which to achieve professional success, many people now concluded that a university degree was a ticket to the good life. In addition to demonstrating the effects of a social ethos of affluence on students' approaches to higher education, the history of the University of South Florida illustrates how colleges and universities similarly prioritized acquiring wealth during the second half of the twentieth century. Although established as a low-cost institution dedicated to undergraduate instruction, the University of South Florida eventually sought to become an affluent “multiversity” by pursuing lucrative research contracts, establishing technology transfer and patent and licensing offices, and raising revenue by increasing the cost of undergraduate education, all in an effort to generate financial resources and elevate institutional prestige.

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