States' Potential Enrollment of Adult Students: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

This study shows that financial aspects of state higher education policies, particularly tuition, have an impact on the level of enrollment of adult undergraduates within a state. This study also demonstrates how stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) can be utilized to examine the potential maximum enr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in higher education 2011-09, Vol.52 (6), p.555-571
Hauptverfasser: Titus, Marvin A., Pusser, Brian
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This study shows that financial aspects of state higher education policies, particularly tuition, have an impact on the level of enrollment of adult undergraduates within a state. This study also demonstrates how stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) can be utilized to examine the potential maximum enrollment of adult learners in postsecondary education and generate state-level scores that can be utilized to rank states according to the difference between the potential maximum and actual enrollment of adults in higher education.
ISSN:0361-0365
1573-188X
DOI:10.1007/s11162-010-9211-2