Effects of region on the establishment of public higher education prices in the US: Indications of possible suboptimal equilibria?

Serna, Gabriel R.

doi:10.1080/03075079.2017.1307819

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“…Given the fundamental importance of tuition fees on students' behaviour and choices, how university prices are set has been extensively studied since the seventies (Serna, 2017). The 2008 economic crisis turned scholarly attention to the effect of reduced public funding for HE, as this led to an increase in university tuition fees due to a substitution effect (Serna, 2017;Teixeira et al, 2014;Wilkins et al, 2013).…”

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“…Therefore, in recent years, scholars have paid growing attention to the effects of crises, including on Higher Education (HE); such research has, for example, shed light on some of the crucial effects of a crisis on tuition fees dynamic. Following the global financial crisis, studies from the U.S. (Gu, 2015;Serna, 2017), the U.K. (Wakeling & Jefferies, 2013;Wilkins, Shams, & Huisman, 2013), and several continental European systems (e.g. Moulin, Flacher, & Harari-Kermadec, 2016 for France; Teixeira, Rocha, Biscaia, & Cardoso, 2014 for Portugal; Pigini & Staffolani, 2016 for Italy), have focused, in particular, on the effect of the financial crisis through cuts in public funding.…”

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Universities’ responses to crises: the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees

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Modern societies regularly face crises that have major disruptive effects. Learning from past crises can inform better choices and policies when facing a new one. Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Higher Education scholars explored its effects on students' tuition fees through cuts in public funding. This article instead investigates how universities' decisions on tuition fees have been affected by other factors, beyond the decrease in public funds. As such, it explores the role of competition and reputation in affecting universities' decisions on tuition fees when facing a crisis.Using data from 59 public Italian universities in the period between 2003 and 2014, we found that universities increased tuition fee by an average of 27% per student in response to the crisis. At the same time, high competition mitigated the increase of tuition fees, except for the case of highly reputed universities, which charged even higher tuition. These findings highlight the importance of monitoring fees in times of crises, as well as the complex role of competition and reputation in containing or inflating university tuition fees.

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Pricing in Russian Universities: How Do Competing Universities Infl uence Tuition Fees?

Dmitrienko,

Myachin

2023

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The paper analyzes the pricing strategies of Russian state universities in the context of the competitors’ influence over the tuition-paying education market. The aim of the study is to find out how competition in local higher education markets affects the pricing strategies of Russian state universities. The empirical basis of the study is formed by the data of the Monitoring of Enrollment Quality at Russian Universities implemented by National Research University Higher School of Economics. With the help of pattern analysis methods (order-fixed and order-invariant pattern clustering), homogeneous groups of universities are identified taking into account indicators, which characterize the scale and quality of admission to bachelor and specialist programs. On the example of technical programs, the authors demonstrate the regression model for predicting the 2011–2019 education prices in universities of corresponding homogeneous groups. The results show that each homogeneous group of universities has one or several market leaders who serve as benchmarks for other universities in that group when setting tuition fees. At the same time, university pricing strategies involve orienting towards market leaders in their demand segments and specialty groups. The identified features confirm that competition among universities for students and funding leads to the appearance of market leaders in certain market niches. In some groups of universities, there are clear market leaders at the local and regional levels who have a significant lead over competitors due to the peculiarities of state policy and high heterogeneity of the Russian educational landscape.

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Effects of region on the establishment of public higher education prices in the US: Indications of possible suboptimal equilibria?

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Universities’ responses to crises: the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees

Universities’ responses to crises: the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees

Pricing in Russian Universities: How Do Competing Universities Infl uence Tuition Fees?

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