Non-resident Tuition and Enrollment in Higher Education: Implications for Tuition Pricing

Douglas Dotterweich and Edward Baryla

Education Economics, 2005, vol. 13, issue 4, 375-385

Abstract: This paper provides evidence on the factors that influence the non-resident enrollment percentage for public and private institutes of higher education (IHEs). We find a significant positive correlation between the enrollment percentage and tuition for private IHEs and no significance for public IHEs. Further investigation reveals that the highest-priced public and private IHEs generally attract the highest percentage of non-resident students. This suggests that the more costly IHEs, especially private, may enjoy a special cache that allows them more latitude in setting non-resident tuition. The non-resident enrollment percentage is not appreciably different across a wide range of tuition levels for both IHE types, indicating that these IHEs might be able to maintain their non-resident enrollment percentage levels with marginal tuition increases.

Keywords: Non-resident enrollment; non-resident tuition; higher education; tuition pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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