Abstract
In this paper, we study the mobility choices of Italian students in their transition from a bachelor’s to a master’s degree level with an added emphasis on their overall mobility pathways. We consider individual data from the Italian National Student Archive on two cohorts of students who were enrolled in the academic years 2011–2012 and 2014–2015. We followed both cohorts in Italian universities for six academic years. This allowed us to depict five different profiles of students, categorise them as stayers vs. movers, and work at two different levels. Logit models were then adopted to study the probability to be in mobility at a master’s level, given that a student had been a stayer at bachelor’s degree, and to assess the effect of the field of study. Apart from individual characteristics, network centrality measures were encompassed in the model to assess the university attractiveness in influencing mobility choices.
Highlights
In this paper, we aim to study the mobility choices of Italian students in their transition from bachelor’s to master’s degree programmes with an added emphasis on their overall mobility pathways as conditioned by the choice of the field of study
In this paper, we study the mobility choices of Italian students in their transition from a bachelor’s to a master’s degree level with an added emphasis on their overall mobility pathways
Special attention is devoted to the description of student mobility choices at different stages of his or her university career according to different disciplinary fields and the location of the university
Summary
We aim to study the mobility choices of Italian students in their transition from bachelor’s to master’s degree programmes with an added emphasis on their overall mobility pathways as conditioned by the choice of the field of study. We consider individual data from the Italian National Student Archive on two cohorts of students enrolled in the academic years 2011–2012 and 2014–2015. We followed both cohorts in Italian universities for six academic years. On the basis of the categorisation regarding the overall mobility pathways advanced by Sulis et al (2019), the present contribution focuses on student mobility by employing descriptive analysis to depict student profiles in terms of their whole mobility pathways, i.e., stayers vs movers, in the transition from a bachelor’s to a master’s degree. Special attention is devoted to the description of student mobility choices at different stages of his or her university career according to different disciplinary fields and the location of the university
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