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A Comparison between Two Systems of University Education: Years of Study versus Credit Accumulation
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Catherine Dehon; Léonore Lebouteiller – Education Economics, 2025
A recent major reform of higher education has changed a year-based system into a credit accumulation one. We use this exogenous shock to compare the two systems. Using a longitudinal dataset of undergraduate students from one of the largest French-speaking universities, a competing risks survival analysis is performed to study the probabilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Time to Degree