At the End of the Day, I Want to Be Close to Home: Adult Students' Preferences for College Proximity to Work and Home

Michael J. Roszkowski and Paul J. Reilly

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2004, vol. 15, issue 1, 81-95

Abstract: Using 10 distinct samples, analyses were conducted to determine whether empirical support could be garnered for the proposition that working adults selecting a college for part-time studies tend to consider the proximity of the school to their home to be more important than the school's proximity to where they work. On a hypothetical task (first 5 samples), a clear preference for home proximity was evident. However, when real-life choices were studied (last 5 samples), the evidence for a preference for proximity to home was much weaker, perhaps because the research was conducted in a metropolitan region with numerous college choices, so that the perceived proximity to home and work were identical in most instances.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1300/J050v15n01_04

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