IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/apl/wpaper/20-09.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Party on Dude, But not if you’re a Top Academic Achieving Student: How being named a Top Party School Changes the Academic Profile of a University

Author

Listed:
  • Austin F. Eggers
  • Peter A. Groothuis

Abstract

Some universities acquire reputations as academic schools and others as party schools. We explore how being named the top party school in the nation by the Princeton Review, affects the quality of students enrolling at a university. Using panel study, we find that being named the top party school in the nation lowers the number of top-tier students who choose to attend the university as measured by academic test scores. We suggest the publicity of being named the top party school in the nation enhances a school’s undesired reputation, which subsequently influences student enrollment decisions, particularly among top-tier students. Key Words: Higher Education, Academic Ranking, Party School

Suggested Citation

  • Austin F. Eggers & Peter A. Groothuis, 2020. "Party on Dude, But not if you’re a Top Academic Achieving Student: How being named a Top Party School Changes the Academic Profile of a University," Working Papers 20-09, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.
    • Handle: RePEc:apl:wpaper:20-09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://econ.appstate.edu/RePEc/pdf/wp2009.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    higher education; academic ranking; party school;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • Z22 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Labor Issues

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:apl:wpaper:20-09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: O. Ashton Morgan (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deappus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.