The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the Kurdistan Region private Universities

Ramyar Rzgar Ahmed ,Rahim Jafar Mahammad Sharif

doi:10.25212/lfu.qzj.3.4.29

Abstract

This research focuses on the relationship between tuition fees and students enrolment. Through, the number of students enrolment depends purely on the students wish and own decision, however, tuition fees plays a great role on the decision made by the students to join a specific university. The educational and economic background of them plays a major role in making them enrolling in their wished university. The result of this study approves this point using the quantitative analysis of a survey. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of tuition fees of number of students' enrolment. Moreover, to find out how the students choose their university on what basis, and how these have an impact on the number of enrolment. It was designed to collect primary data from the students. The research was intended to determine the role of tuition fees in making many students enrolment. The sampling questionnaire measured most of the students of Erbil preferred of having a university with international standards of coaching. The results show that high tuition fees impacts adversely on the number of applicants in Kurdistan region. Key words: Tuition Fee, Private University.

Highlights

Every year university bound graduating high school students are faced with the problem of selecting a post-secondary institution
Do you know or heard about LFU was the first question in our questioner to first know, whether they know this private university is exists or not? So due to the result of our survey which was done on 150 students on four private universities, %67.7 was said yes, %24.6 said no and %7.7 said no ideas, so results verified that majority of student know this university is exist and they heard about it, in the other hand %24.6 of them said they never heard about and only %7.7 of them said they have no idea, as you can see it in figure 4.1
What makes you to join LFU? What makes you to join LFU was the fourth question in our questioner to know what is the reasons students join this university, or what is the special thing about LFU that make the students to join this university ? So due to the result of our survey which was done on 150 students on four private universities, %30.2was said best in Erbil, %56.9 said all facilities in one place and % 5.8 said friends reference, %7.1 best coaching, so results verified that majority of them believe that all facilities are in one place, and only%30.2 think best in Erbil, as you can see it in figure 4.3

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Introduction

Every year university bound graduating high school students are faced with the problem of selecting a post-secondary institution. This question concerned the economic theory that refers to the crucial issues of resource allocation and more Important that higher education is a key sector of an economy based on Knowledge and skills. It is interested in the humanities and social in, so far introducing or raising tuition fees is likely to fundamentally transform of the social infrastructure, the ratio of students to education. To describe and analyse the effect on tuition fees and number of enrolments, we need to consider many factors; the focus in this study is to mainly focus on the tuition fees and some other quality-related issues of the university

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