All Rights Reserved
AccessEcon LLC 2006, 2008.
Powered by MinhViet JSC

 
Austin F. Eggers and Peter A. Groothuis
 
''The Impact of Winning an NCAA Men's Basketball or Football Championship on Academic Quality ''
( 2021, Vol. 41 No.2 )
 
 
Collegiate sports programs are often characterized as the front porch of a university, serving to publicize the institution and draw students to the door. We analyze how winning either a national championship in men's NCAA Division One basketball or football influences the academic quality of students attending the university. Our findings suggest that winning a national championship in men's basketball slightly increases the quality of students at a university, while winning a football championship slightly lowers the quality of students who enroll at a school as measured by academic test scores and high school rank. Our results demonstrate that winning a national championship may serve as signal to prospective students of the amenity mix available at a university, thereby influencing student enrollment decisions.
 
 
Keywords: Higher Education, Academic Ranking, NCAA men's basketball and football
JEL: I2 - Education: General
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor: General
 
Manuscript Received : Sep 01 2020 Manuscript Accepted : Apr 09 2021

  This abstract has been downloaded 771 times                The Full PDF of this paper has been downloaded 166230 times