Date of Award
3-24-2021
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
First Advisor
Joseph Nichols
Committee Members
Alicia Shaw; Cindy Nichols; Joan Henley
Call Number
ISBN 9798582552345
Abstract
With the cost of student debt surpassing credit card debt, those students who default on their student loans are not only affected but the colleges and universities they attended are affected as well. The purpose of this study is to compare default rates before and after the amendment to the Higher Education Act of 2008. This study will identify non-profit, four-year public institutions and private four-year institutions located in Arkansas and compare their default rates based on the two-year and three-year cohort default rates. Data mining will be used to compare two-year and three-year cohort default rates as well as the amount of financial aid awarded, costs of tuition, graduation rates, retention rates, costs of living, median incomes and unemployment rates.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Vicki Kay, "Understanding the Reasons and Causes for Federal Student Loan Default Rates in Four-Private and Public Institutions of Higher Learning in Arkansas" (2021). Student Theses and Dissertations. 335.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/335
