Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the students' attitudes towards private sector work during study. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a comprehensive social survey (including questionnaire and interviewing) distributed to experts in departments and colleges in King Saud University and Princess Nora University. Findings:…

Since 2008, Sallie Mae has surveyed American families with an undergraduate student about their attitudes toward college and how they paid for it. For the past ten years, the "How America Pays for College" research has provided insight regarding families' belief in the value of a college education, how they are making college more…

In 2011 the U.S. Department of Education tightened the credit standards for Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS). Concerned about the possible effects of this change on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic's Historically Black Colleges and Universities College Completion…

This First Look report presents selected findings about student financial aid during the 2015-16 academic year. These findings are based on data from the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16), a nationally representative sample survey of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled any time between July 1, 2015, and June 30,…

This quantitative study examined how social capital and finances influenced community college students' intent to transfer to a four-year institution within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Focusing on the community college students enrolled in a rural midwestern state, the authors employed a structural equation modeling…

Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of effects for marginal and inframarginal workers. We then…

This report summarizes results from the Higher Education Services Offices 2001 survey of financial aid received by undergraduates attending Minnesota postsecondary institutions. Undergraduates attending Minnesota postsecondary institutions in fiscal year (fy) 2001 used $1.2 billion in grants, education loans, and earnings from work study jobs to…

This research probes two questions: Does participation in alternative high school programs reduce the likelihood of students dropping out? Does participation enhance experience in the labor market after students leave school? Results showed lower dropout and higher subsequent employment rates among participants who had no doubt about finishing the…

The impact of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act (MISAA) program was evaluated through analysis of financial aid to cohorts of students before and after MISAA, a longitudinal examination of a sample of students before and after its enactment, and a macro-level analysis of the effect of MISAA on the relationship between income and aid. The…

The equity and effectiveness of the student financial aid system are considered, as it applies to undergraduates attending public institutions. In addition to evaluating whether aid is targeted to students with the greatest financial needs, attention is directed to the relationship between the receipt of different types of financial aid and…

Technical notes are presented from a study that examined the degree to which cooperative education is a viable educational and/or financial aid mechanism for institutions of higher education to adopt. This volume gives graphs and tabular data on cohort selection, construction of net benefit streams (including graduate earnings and student…

Using financial data from an annual national survey, differences in revenue patterns are analyzed for six groups of medical schools (research-intensive, generalist-producers, community-based, private/freestanding, private, public) on both departmental and school levels, and information about student financial aid sources is presented for 1989-90…