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Advance to Graduate Education: The Effect of College Quality and Undergraduate Majors

Author
Zhang, Liang
Abstract
Using a nationally representative sample of baccalaureate graduates from 1993, we examine 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 things 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.
Date Issued
2004-06-01Subject
graduate education; undergraduate majors; college quality; academic performance
Rights
Required Publisher Statement: Published by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University.
Type
article