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

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Zhang, Liang ^a  

^a and History   (United States)

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EID: 15944401421     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2005.0030     Document Type: Article

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