"How to Incentivize Students to Graduate Faster" by Olga M. Kosheleva
 

How to Incentivize Students to Graduate Faster

Publication Date

2014

Document Type

Article

Abstract

At prime research universities, students study full-time and receive their Bachelors’s degree in four years. In contrast, at urban universities, many students study only part-time, and take a longer time to graduate. The sooner such a student graduates, the sooner will the society start benefiting from his or her newly acquired skills – and the sooner the student will start earning more money. It is therefore desirable to incentivize students to graduate faster. In the present paper, we propose a first-approximation solution to the problem of how to distribute a given amount of resources so as to maximally speed up students graduation.

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