Studies of College Attrition: 1950––1975

Identity, youth, and crisis

1968 • 13,355 citations

Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research

1975 • 6,497 citations

Development and validation of ego-identity status.

1966 • 4,764 citations

Identity—Youth and Crisis

1969 • 3,577 citations

Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America

1973 • 2,446 citations

Freedom to Learn

1971 • 2,376 citations

Teachers College Record

1930 • 2,064 citations

Review of Educational Research.

1924 • 1,266 citations

Path Analysis: Sociological Examples

1966 • 1,261 citations

The Impact of College on Students

2020 • 971 citations

Inequality: A Reassessment of Effect of Family and Schooling in America

1973 • 868 citations

Schools Without Failure

1968 • 633 citations

The Impact of College on Students

1970 • 627 citations

Socioeconomic Status, Intelligence, and the Attainment of Higher Education

1967 • 432 citations

An approach to the measurement of psychological characteristics of college environments.

1958 • 400 citations

College and University 1975–1986

2023 • 363 citations

The Environmental Assessment Technique: A way to measure college environments.

1961 • 237 citations

Dropouts from College.

2006 • 190 citations

Adolescence: Psychosocial Perspectives

1970 • 153 citations

Personal and environmental factors associated with college dropouts among high aptitude students.

1964 • 135 citations

Longitudinal study of changes in ego identity status from the freshman to the senior year at college.

1974 • 132 citations

The College "Charter" and College Size: Effects on Occupational Choice and College Attrition

1971 • 123 citations

College Dropouts : a national profile

1972 • 104 citations

Attrition Among College Students

1968 • 103 citations

Student Peer-Group Influence.

2006 • 102 citations

Origins of American Scientists.

1953 • 91 citations

Commitment to College as a Factor in Student Attrition

1970 • 81 citations

Developmental Status of the Entering Freshman.

2006 • 78 citations

Promise and Performance

1963 • 78 citations

Social Class and College Graduation: Some Misconceptions Corrected

1964 • 75 citations

The Passage Through College

1956 • 69 citations

The College Drop-out: Factors Affecting Senior College Completion

1968 • 67 citations

Factors Contributing to Attrition in College Populations: Twenty-Five Years of Research

1965 • 65 citations

College Dropouts Who Came Back

1964 • 63 citations

Personality factors in college dropout.

1965 • 62 citations

College Admission-Selection Studies

1960 • 62 citations

Effect of different college environments on the vocational choices of high aptitude students.

1965 • 59 citations

College Dropouts—A Review

1966 • 55 citations

Differences in college student satisfaction: Academic dropouts, nonacademic dropouts and nondropouts.

1972 • 55 citations

College Dropout Identification

1971 • 54 citations

Another look at the college dropout.

1966 • 53 citations

Adolescence: Psychosocial Perspectives

1973 • 52 citations

Student‐To‐Student Counseling for Academic Adjustment

1965 • 49 citations

Undergraduate Origins of American Scientists

1957 • 48 citations

Factors related to persistence and withdrawal among university students.

1970 • 48 citations

College press and student achievement.

1959 • 46 citations

Relationship between freshman ego identity status and subsequent academic behavior: A test of the predictive validity of Marcia's categorization system for identity status.

1972 • 46 citations

Student perceptions of college persistence, and their intellective, personality and performance correlates.

1967 • 44 citations

The Origins of American Scientists

1951 • 43 citations

Vocational crystallization and self-esteem in college students.

1970 • 41 citations

A Source of Error in College Attrition Studies

1964 • 39 citations

School Factors and Equal Educational Opportunity

1968 • 37 citations

Effectiveness of student-to-student counseling on the academic adjustment of potential college dropouts.

1971 • 36 citations

Student Mortality and Related Factors

1961 • 30 citations

Analysis of College Dropouts—Some Manifest and Covert Reasons

1968 • 30 citations

College Dropouts: Dismissed vs. Withdrew

1968 • 28 citations

Differences in outcomes for users and nonusers of university counseling and psychiatric services: A 5-year accountability study.

1975 • 27 citations

Personality factors and college attrition

1957 • 26 citations

The College Dropout

1970 • 25 citations

Persistance at a liberal arts college: A replicated, five-year longitudinal study.

1973 • 25 citations

Prediction and prevention of freshman attrition.

1965 • 24 citations

College Characteristics Associated with Freshman Attrition

1966 • 23 citations

Personality and Scholarship

1961 • 19 citations

Migration of College and University Students in the United States.

1969 • 19 citations

A multivariate study of personality and academic factors in college attrition.

1974 • 19 citations

REPORTED DETERMINANTS OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICE

1964 • 18 citations

Student Financial Aid: Effects on Educational Decisions and Academic Achievement.

1973 • 17 citations

College and character

1964 • 16 citations

Interaction of ability and personality: Another look at the drop-out problem in an institute of technology.

1970 • 16 citations

Prediction of college success from elementary and secondary performance.

1960 • 16 citations

Prediction of College Persistence, Withdrawal, and Academic Dismissal: a Discriminant Analysis

1973 • 15 citations

Migration of College and University Students in the United States.

1969 • 15 citations

Personality characteristics in relation to college persistence.

1970 • 14 citations

A longitudinal study of who seeks counseling when.

1974 • 14 citations

Group Counseling and Remediation: A Two-Faceted Intervention Approach to the Problem of Attrition in Nursing Education¹

1974 • 13 citations

The Younger American Scholar

1954 • 13 citations

Prediction of persistence in college.

1965 • 13 citations

A STUDY IN PERSISTENCE: Withdrawal and Graduation Rates at the University of Utah

1962 • 13 citations

Methods of Describing College Cultures

1962 • 13 citations

A study of student withdrawal at "W.U."

1956 • 12 citations

Training Student Volunteers

1974 • 12 citations

Factors in Retention of Residence Hall Freshmen

1966 • 12 citations

Outcomes of College

1965 • 12 citations

Sex differences in adjustment to college.

1955 • 11 citations

Student role orientations and college dropouts.

1970 • 11 citations

Student Persistence in College

1956 • 11 citations

A Comparison of Activities, Social Acceptance, And Scholastic Achievements of Men Students

1957 • 10 citations

The Process of Withdrawal.

1969 • 10 citations

Personality Patterns and Achievement in College1

1964 • 9 citations

Perception: A Context for the Consideration of Persistence and Attrition among College Men

1957 • 9 citations

Small Rural High Schools and College Completion.

1974 • 8 citations

The smaller liberal arts college

2012 • 8 citations

Do Low Grades Cause College Students to Give Up?

1973 • 6 citations

Why Do They Leave College?

1963 • 6 citations

Difficulties in identifying relatively permanent characteristics related to persistence in college.

1966 • 6 citations

Attrition in Probationary Freshmen.

1971 • 5 citations

The Smaller Liberal Arts College

1963 • 5 citations

PRE‐CRISIS INTERVENTION

1968 • 4 citations

Personality Factors and the Capacity to Meet Curriculum Demands

1964 • 4 citations

Relationship of Selected Adjustment Factors, College Ability, and Achievement to Drop-Outs and Nondrop-Outs Of College Freshmen

1963 • 3 citations

Interpersonal Values and College Persistence.

1970 • 3 citations

The crisis intervention technique with potential college dropouts

1970 • 3 citations

The Relationship between College Environmental Press and Freshman Attrition at Southern Methodist University

1966 • 3 citations

How Many Graduate

1968 • 2 citations

Correlates of the reported determinants of college attendance.

1968 • 2 citations

With the Technicians

1956 • 2 citations

Academic Achievement as a Function of Psychological Needs

1964 • 1 citations