Student response to tuition increase by academic majors: Empirical grounds for a cost-related tuition policy

Higher Education

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 719-734

  Shin, Jung Cheol ^a   Milton, Sande ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost related tuition policy; Rate of return; Tuition elasticity; Tuition revenue

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449090341     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9085-1     Document Type: Article

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