Tuition fees and student effort at university

Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees

Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition fees at German universities...

Tuition fees, self-esteem and social heterogeneity

Modelling students’ behaviour in relation to tuition fees is a complex task since students’ “talent” is not common knowledge. Students observe a private noisy signal of their abilities, while university receives noisy information based on the quantitative and qualitative data provided by university applicants. In this article, we add the heterogeneity of the population to this model: we assume ...

Paying Tuition and Other Fees Online

Tuition, Fees and Other Financial Information

The ex penses for each se mes ter will vary ac cord ing to the per sonal needs of the stu dent and the course of study pur sued. The tu i tion rate dif fers ac cord ing to which of the three fol low ing cat e go ries a stu dent qual i fies: res i dent of Texas, non-res i dent of Texas, or pur su ing a li cense-op tion cur ric u lum (Ma rine Trans por ta tion, Ma rine En gi neer ing Technology, ...

Efficient tuition fees and examinations: A reply

Gary-Bobo and Trannoy (2008) assume that students observe a private noisy signal of their ability while university gets information through noisy tests. They derive that a selection of potential applicants mixing tuition fees and examinations is socially optimal when the information owned by the university is not completely revealed to students. If tests results are public knowledge, they deduc...