The impact of major on college persistence among freshmen

By K. Leppel. 2001

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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In Education

1. Kirsti Lonka
2. D. Carter
3. Ada B. Simmons
4. Shouping Hu
5. E. Olkinuora
6. Stephen R. Porter
7. George D. Kuh
8. Jan D. Vermunt

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Shouping Hu
2. Stephen R. Porter

Citations in the corpus

• What Difference Does a Major Make? The Influence of College Major Field on Persistence by African American and White Students (2004, background): “Fewer studies have explored gender differences in the influence of major on persistence (Leppel, 2001).”
• Students at risk: Students' general study orientations and abandoning/prolonging the course of studies (2004, background): “Because of their ambiguous orientation, they are unable to follow the typical course of studying ( Leppel 2001 ), and consequently their studies will be prolonged or, in the worst case, totally interrupted (Makinen, Olkinuora and Lonka 2002).”