Economics 351 - SEM: ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Topics course. An exploration of several of the following topics in the economics of higher education: the economic returns to a college education; the additional economic returns to attending an elite college; the determinants of college admissions; the role of SAT scores in determining performance in college; the construction and effects of The U.S. News rankings of colleges; peer effects in colleges; and the current (and future) crisis in funding higher education. Throughout the course an emphasis will be placed on empirically testing economic hypotheses using several databases. Prerequisites: ECO 250 and 220.

Topic: Economics of Higher Education. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores