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Variables Influencing Recent High School Graduates' Choice Of Postsecondary Proprietary Schools Or Community Colleges: A Study Of Business Administration And Related Curricula At The Virginia Beach Campuses Of Commonwealth College And Tidewater Community College, Bill Carl De Weese
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons why recent high school graduates choose to attend a postsecondary proprietary school or a community college. Choice models based on the choices of prospective four-year college and university students provided the basis for the study. Three sets of variables--significant persons, relatively fixed institutional characteristics, and other institutional characteristics--were analyzed in order to determine students' choice of the two types of institutions.;The populations of this study were a group of 22 students in business and related curricula at the Virginia Beach Campus of Commonwealth College and a group of thirty randomly …