Abstract
This study aims to explain the impact of distance on state university enrolments in Turkey based on the student data received from Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ) extending our previous study by incorporating 19 years of panel data. We are able to corroborate our earlier findings, explaining 70% of the variation in student composition by using 3 highly statistically significant variables; i) distance to university city, ii) distance to major cities, and iii) the number of students who pass the university entrance test, in addition to trend effects. Further analysis more robustly shows that a relatively significant gender disparity still persists and distance is found to be much less effective on female students. Additional parametric efficiency analysis also reveals that, compared to the predicted results, conservative and mostly landlocked provinces send increasingly fewer students to ÇOMÜ while nearby provinces, Eastern Anatolia and the Black Sea Region shows a much greater interest.
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