Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

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What affects students’ performance? An investigation of the importance of admission characteristics

2005, Volume 2005, issue 1, pp. 359-379

Lisbeth La Cour () and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller ()
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Lisbeth La Cour: Department of Economics, CBS

Abstract: The present study relates student’s performance, as measured by the grades the students achieve in individual course exams, and the admission characteristics. We focus on the group of students who are enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in International Business (B.Sc.IB) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) – a program that bases 20% of its student admission on kvote-1 (quota-1) students and 80% on kvote-2 (quota-2 students). This unique admission system for Denmark allows us to examine what characteristics matters for the quota-2 group of students. Our results emphasize the importance of high-school GPAs, while all other variables are either insignificant or significant for the student performance in a couple of individual courses.

Keywords: academic; performance

JEL-codes: A10

Language: English

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