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Blog #10: Final Abstract and Works Cited


Abstract: The purpose of my paper is to examine why American students choose to attend higher education institutions in the United States, where tuition is skyrocketing, as opposed to in Europe, where tuition costs are very low or, in some cases, non existent. While privatization of universities in the United States has placed the burden of tuition on students and families, it has increased the availability of resources at universities, which offers students more opportunities to work closely with professors and gain experience in their field prior to graduation. These opportunities also translate into increased employability of students after graduation, and even increased graduation rates in the United States.

Works Cited
“College Access and Affordability: USA vs. the World.” Value Colleges, www.valuecolleges.com/collegecosts/.
Doerr, Neriko Musha. “Learner Subjects in Study Abroad: Discourse of Immersion, Hierarchy of Experience and Their Subversion through Situated Learning.” Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 36, no. 3, June 2015, pp. 369-382. EBSCOHost, doi: 10.1080/01596306.2013.871448.
Gapinski, Andrzej J. "Higher Education: Europe vs. USA." 2010.
Malik, Noorin. “Best Universities for Graduate Jobs: Global University Employability Ranking 2019.” Times Higher Education (THE), 4 Dec. 2019, www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-graduate-jobs-global-university-employability-ranking.
McMurtrie, Beth. “Is Europe Passe?: As U.S. Higher Education Shifts to a 'Pacific Century,' Europe Feels the Sting.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 July 2013. Social Sciences Premium Collection.
Mikulas, Josek, and Svobodova Jitka. “Statistical Analysis of Study Abroad Experiences of International Students in Five Major Host Countries of Europe.” Journal of International Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–18., doi:10.32674/jis.v9il.262.
“Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2020.” Times Higher Education (THE), 29 Oct. 2019, www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/united-states/2020#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats.
Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna. “An Evaluation and Explanation of (in)Efficiency in Higher Education Institutions in Europe in the U.S> with the Application of Two-Stage Semi-Parametric DEA.” Elsevier, 10 July 2017. ScienceDirect, doi:10.1016/j.respol.2017.07.010.
Woolf, Michael. “The Baggage They Carry: Study Abroad and the Construction of ‘Europe’ in the American Mind.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, vol. 21, Frontiers Journal, 2011.
Zaloom, Caitlin. “Enmeshed Autonomy.” Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 95–121.

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