Economics of Higher Education

By Herman Berliner. Very often in higher education, when we look at enrollment numbers, the numbers are aggregated. We look at the headcount of students or the number of full-time students or the number of new students or transfer students, etc. We also look more and more at the discount rate, once again by different categories of students. We know, for example, that typically first time full-time students have a higher discount rate than transfer students or part-time students or continuing students. Read more...