Higher football achievement by a university leads administrators and professors at other schools to raise their estimates of the university’s overall academic quality, says a team led by Sean E. Mulholland of Stonehill College. Specifically, a 301-vote increase in the Associated Press football poll final assessment of a university’s season has the same effect on outside administrators’ and faculty members’ opinions as a 20-point increase in the school’s entering students’ SAT scores.
(Source: Economics of Education Review)
Published in Dawn, Economic & Business, February 9th, 2015
On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play
Read more
On DawnNews
Dear visitor, the comments section is undergoing an overhaul and will return soon.