Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2570-6607

Semester

Summer

Date of Graduation

2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Type

PhD

College

College of Applied Human Sciences

Department

Curriculum & Instruction/Literacy Studies

Committee Chair

Rodney Hughes

Committee Co-Chair

Erin McHenry-Sorber

Committee Member

Nathan Sorber

Committee Member

Jay Cole

Abstract

This dissertation is an empirical investigation of the relationship between institution and state characteristics and college choice for students enrolling out-of-state, as well as the relationship between Promise programs and college choice. The theoretical framework used in this study draws on both an economic model of human capital investment and sociological concepts of habitus, cultural, and social capital, and organizational context and assumes that an individual’s college choice is shaped by four contextual layers: the individual’s habitus, school and community context, the higher education context, and broader social, economic, and policy context. Public data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the United States Census were used to analyze out-of-state enrollment of first-time, first-year undergraduate students by state and public four-year doctoral institutions between 2005-2020. These associations were investigated by using Poisson regression models that analyzed a set of variables for each institution and each state. Results were included for four different models that varied by reporting years, whether a Promise indicator was included in the model, time-periods, and region. Factors including tuition costs, race and ethnicity, and proximity were found to be statistically significantly related to students' choice of enrolling at a public doctoral university in another state

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