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September 29, 2025

AI is changing higher education, but students aren’t using it how you’d expect

New survey: 80% of students use generative AI, primarily to enhance understanding rather than automate coursework

  • ChatGPT
  • Generative AI
  • higher education
  • student learning
  • technology adoption
  • Germán Reyes
  • Zara Contractor
Research

June 26, 2024

Gender differences in graduate degree choices affect early-career earnings

Female graduates are less likely to do further study in STEM fields

  • gender gap
  • graduate study
  • higher education
  • STEM
  • Judith M. Delaney
  • Paul J. Devereux
Research

May 6, 2024

AI capital boosts employment prospects for economics graduates

New study examines impact of AI education on hiring chances in the UK

  • artificial intelligence
  • employment prospects
  • higher education
  • human capital
  • job applications
  • Nick Drydakis
Research

March 22, 2024

First-generation high achievers face hidden obstacles on path to success

Top students from working-class backgrounds make different educational and career choices

  • first-generation
  • higher education
  • socio-economic gaps
  • Larissa Zierow
  • Nikki Shure
Research

May 5, 2021

Relative comparisons affect performance and choices in college

Whether someone is a big fish in a little pond is largely a matter of luck, but it changes how students behave

  • higher education
  • peer effects
  • rank
  • social comparisons
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Ingo E. Isphording
  • Ulf Zölitz
Research

March 28, 2019

Peer diversity and college performance

Linguistic diversity does not harm native students but enhances non-native speaking students' performance

  • academic performance
  • college
  • diversity
  • globalization
  • higher education
  • language
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Elena Lisauskaite
  • Ingo E. Isphording
Research

May 5, 2018

The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

Education systems around the world increasingly apply standardized high school exit exams to make achievement more comparable among graduates (see […]

  • academic achievement
  • career progression
  • education
  • exam
  • fail
  • high stakes
  • higher education
  • inequality
  • Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
  • Sandra McNally
  • Stephen Machin
Research

May 20, 2015

Should colleges share the burden of student loan debt?

Tertiary education is a costly thing. How to design its financing is a major topic in public policy. Around the […]

  • college
  • debt
  • financing
  • higher education
  • student loans
  • tuition
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Douglas A. Webber
  • Giorgio Di Pietro
  • John V. Winters
  • Peter J. Sloane
Research

October 28, 2013

High school counselors effectively help students choose the right college major

Choosing the right field of study at college is a very important, but also a very difficult decision. Many prospective […]

  • employment prospects
  • field of study
  • high school
  • higher education
  • study counselor
  • tertiary education
  • university
  • Anders Stenberg
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • Lex Borghans

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