CWU: S TUDENT & P ARENT S URVEY
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STUDENTS: Programs, Quality of Teaching, Cost Ranked as Top 3 College Considerations Q10 When you are thinking about colleges, there are certainly many things to think about. In these next questions, we'll ask
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about things that could be important to you in deciding which colleges to apply to. We'll show you sets of 4 possible considerations. In each set, indicate which one of these would be MOST important to you and which one would be LEAST important. There will be several sets. These decision factors were ranked using Maximum Differential Scaling, which presented 12 rotated sets of 4 factors and asked respondents to indicate the Most and Least important factor in each set. Each factor appeared in at least 3 sets. Each factor is thus rated against every other factor, not one at a time. Individual factor scores are calculated for each respondent. The average score is displayed here. The scores, which sum to 100, indicate the importance of each factor relative to the other factors.
1. They have specific program/majors you want ............................ 10.39 2. Quality of teaching...................................................................... 10.16 3. Total Cost (tuition, living expenses, etc.).................................... 10.01 4. Personal attention from faculty & staff.......................................... 8.07 5. Quality of on-campus housing...................................................... 6.71 6. Access to cultural & recreational opportunities ............................ 6.64 7. Small class sizes .......................................................................... 6.49 8. Setting (Big city, Small town, Rural area)..................................... 6.20 9. Size of the school (number of students)....................................... 5.74 10. Ease of getting back & forth to home ........................................... 5.72 11. Physical attractiveness of campus ............................................... 5.32 12. Diversity of the student body ........................................................ 4.88 13. Climate / Weather......................................................................... 4.34 14. Friends are going there ................................................................ 3.53 15. Big time intercollegiate sports ...................................................... 3.04 16. Free tablet computer, smart phone or IPad from the college ....... 2.75
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