The Role of College Experience in Shaping a Baccalaureate Degree in Higher Education in Taiwan

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 78
  In Roundtable Session: International Students in Curricular and Cocurricular Contexts

Abstract

The issue of graduation and students’ time to degree has received attention in higher education of Taiwan in recent years. Impacted by globalization and internationalization, postsecondary enrollment in Taiwan has achieved almost universal access, while the empirical evidence revealed that a growing trend of undergraduates procrastinated to graduate on time. The study uses institutional data from a research university in Taiwan to examine the impacts of student characteristics and college experiences on students’ time to degree. Event History Analysis (EHA) was employed to identify and determine whether and how various factors are relevant to the occurrence of an event from one state (enrolled) to another (not enrolled or graduated). Based on the results, implications are drawn from theory, policy and research.

Authors

• Ching-Hui Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

• Jyun-Hong Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University