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Differential Tuition By Undergraduate Major: Its Use, Amount, And Impact At Public Research Universities, Glen R. Nelson
Differential Tuition By Undergraduate Major: Its Use, Amount, And Impact At Public Research Universities, Glen R. Nelson
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of the study was to examine differential tuition by undergraduate major at 165 public research universities. The study focused on: the emergence and prevalence of this type of differential tuition; the programs or majors for which differential tuition existed and the amount of the differential; the dates the differentials were considered or implemented; the reasons for implementing or not implementing; the impacts of the adoption and implementation of differential tuition; and how the incremental revenues were used. The study was a descriptive study using the pragmatic mixed-method approach which included a survey instrument completed by chief business officers, …