Investing in Student Success: Return on Investment for Hispanic-Serving Institutions in Texas: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Types ROI HBCU HSI
- Author(s):
- Park, Toby J.; Flores, Stella M.; Ryan, Jr., Christopher J.; Jimenez, Chris D.
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Report Number:
- RR-17-57
- Source:
- Gasman, Marybeth; Samayoa, Andres Castro; Nettles, Michael T. (eds.) Investing in Student Success: Examining the Return on Investment for Minority-Serving Institutions (RR-17-57). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 2017, p5-18.
- Document Type:
- Chapter
- Page Count:
- 14
- Subject/Key Words:
- Return on Investment (ROI), Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Labor Market, Higher Education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Texas, Logistic Regression, Comparative Analysis
Abstract
In this study, we explore the return on investment in terms of labor-market returns for Latino students who attend a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) in comparison to Latino students who do not. We employed a Texas student-level database and used institutional type as the treatment variation within the 4-year sector to examine labor market outcomes for Latino students in Texas 10 years after high school graduation. We found that there was no difference between the earnings of Latino students who graduated from HSIs and those who graduated from non-HSIs.