Prioritizing Critical Success Factors for Higher EducationA COST PERSPECTIVE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA

CATHERINE BURR, DM,

LEONIDAS MAGANARES ED.D.

What is the problem?

Decline of student enrollment

What ill effects does this problem create in society or its subsets?

Less students obtain academic credential to seeks better jobs

Less courses available for faculties to facilitate

Closure of campuses

Who would be interested in a study of the problem?

Higher Education AdministratorsAdmissions SpecialistsFaculties

What part of the problem can the results of this study help to solve?

Student recruitment strategyTuition and fees policy

What must be done to investigate the problem?

Analyze, describe, evaluate, test, understand, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) http://highereddata.aft.org/state/ipeds/

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionProfile.aspx

Literature Review

Research Method and Design

Research MethodDescriptive

CorrelationalResearch Design

Quantitative Ex Post Facto

Research Question and Hypotheses

Research Question: Is there a correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina?

H0: There is no correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina

Ha: There is correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina

Data: North Carolina Higher Education 2004-2013

Thirty (30) private institutions offering Bachelor degrees (including Business related majors)

Variables

Depended Variable: Students Enrollment 2010-2013

Independent Variable: Tuition and Fees2010-2013

Regression Analysis

Data Classification by Correlation Coefficient and Coefficient of Determination

Descriptive Statistics of Tuition and Fees 2013 by Group: Strong Negative Correlation Strong Positive Correlation Weak Correlation

Conclusion and Recommendations

There is no correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina

Instructional approaches and implementation of new programs need to be examined as factors affecting students’ enrollment

Questions and Discussion