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ERIC Number: EJ136375
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Choosing a Women's College
Brush, Lorelei R.
College and University, 51, 3, 360-67, Spr 76
A comparative study of women at three women's colleges and one coeducational college showed major reasons for college choice to be academic criteria, institutional characteristics, school size, and social factors. Compared to students in a 1958 study they emphasized social features and de-emphasized others' advice and personal values. (JT)
Descriptors: College Choice, College Students, Educational Research, Females, Higher Education, Trend Analysis, Womens Education
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Identifiers: Mount Holyoke College MA; Smith College MA; Wellesley College MA; Wesleyan University CT