Determinants of students' success at university

Kamila Danilowicz-Gösele, Johannes Meya, Robert Schwager and Katharina Suntheim

No 214, University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics from University of Goettingen, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a smaller impact. Moreover, the link between high school performance and university success is shown to vary substantially across faculties. In some fields of study, the probability of graduating is rather low, while grades are quite good conditional on high school performance. In others, weaker students have a greater chance of graduating, but grades are more differentiated.

Keywords: university; high school; grade point average; faculties; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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