The Relationship Between Institutional Expenditures and Degree Attainment at Baccalaureate Colleges

By J. F. Ryan. 2004

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IS STUDENT-RIGHT-TO-KNOW ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW? An Analysis of Community College Graduation Rates (2005, methodology): “Ryan (2004) used data on 363 baccalaureate institutions to estimate the impact of institutional expenditures for instruction, academic support, student services, and administrative support on the six-year graduation rates of cohorts within each institution.”
Community College Student Success: What Institutional Characteristics Make a Difference?. (2005, background): “Titus (2004) and Ryan (2004) found negative effects for this variable in four-year institutions and argued that, although these expenses are necessary for day-to-day work, they might divert funds from more effective expenditures like instruction.”
Understanding college degree completion of students with low socioeconomic status: The Influence of the Institutional Financial Context (2006, background): “Although a few studies (e.g., Kim, Rhoades, and Woodard, 2003; Ryan, 2004) have demonstrated that college completion is influenced by aspects of the financial context of colleges and universities, there is no known research that explores the extent to which the financial context of four-year institu”
Understanding the Influence of the Financial Context of Institutions on Student Persistence at Four-Year Colleges and Universities (2006, methodology): “Although a small body of research (e.g., Kim, Rhoades, & Woodard, 2003; Ryan, 2004; Thomas & Bean, 1988; Wyman, 1997) examined the relationship between persistence and institutional expenditures, that research is limited in several ways.”
Educational expenditures and student engagement: When does money matter? (2006, unknown): “For example, Astin (1993) found that expenditures for student services were positively related to retention, but Ryan (2004) failed to substantiate this relationship.”
If and When Money Matters: The Relationships Among Educational Expenditures, Student Engagement and Students’ Learning Outcomes (2011, background): “More recent studies have found statistically significant relationships between expenditures and college outcomes, even after controlling for a variety of student and institutional characteristics (Astin 1993; Gansemer-Topf and Schuh 2006; Hayek 2001; Ryan 2004; Smart et al. 2002; Toutkoushian and Sm”
Understanding How First-year Seminars Affect Persistence (2006, background): “John, 2001), private sector (Hu and St. John, 2001; Ryan, 2004), selectivity (Kim, Rhoades and Woodard, 2003) and spending per student (Porter, 2000; Ryan, 2004) have been shown to positively affect persistence and graduation rates.”
Evaluating Impacts of Performance Funding Policies on Student Outcomes in Higher Education (2014, background): “We control for whether the institution is a research university, master’s degreegranting institution, or baccalaureate college (reference category), as these institutional types may have different levels of focus on undergraduate degree programs (Ryan 2004).”