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Title American universities in a global market [electronic resource] / edited by Charles T. Clotfelter.

Imprint Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 413 p. : ill., charts.
Series National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Contents Storm clouds for American higher education? -- Is the U.S. losing its preeminence in higher education? / James D. Adams -- To be or not to be: major choices in budding scientists / Eric Bettinger -- Universities as firms in a global market -- Coming to America: where do international doctorate students study and how do U.S. universities respond? / John Bound and Sarah Turner -- The economics of university science and the role of foreign graduate students and postdoctoral scholars / Grant C. Black and Paula E. Stephan -- Universities as firms: the case of U.S. overseas programs / E. Han Kim and Min Zhu -- Emulation and competition abroad -- The structure of European higher education in the wake of the Bologna reforms / Ofer Malamud -- The Americanization of European higher education and research / Lex Borghans and Frank Corvers -- Higher education in China : complement or competition to U.S. universities? / Haizheng Li -- Indian higher education / Devesh Kapur -- From brain drain to brain competition: changing opportunities and the career patterns of U.S.-trained Korean academics / Sunwoong Kim -- Looking ahead -- What does global expansion of higher education mean for the U.S.? / Richard B. Freeman.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Education, Higher -- United States.
Education and globalization.
Universities and colleges -- United States.
Competition, International.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Clotfelter, Charles T.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226110448 (alk. paper)
0226110443 (alk. paper)

 
    
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