Advance to graduate education: The effect of college quality and undergraduate majors

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Abstract

Using a nationally representative sample of baccalaureate graduates from 1993, this study examines the effect of college quality and undergraduate majors on a variety of graduate education outcomes including graduate school enrollment, graduate degree attainment, and the quality of graduate programs. Other factors being equal, college quality has a significant effect on graduate education. More importantly, because part of socioeconomic factors has been crystallized into academic performance and educational credentials, socioeconomic factors exert significant direct and indirect effects on graduate education.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)313-338+i
JournalReview of Higher Education
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education

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