National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators

Graduate Student Persistence: Evidence from Three Decades

Volume 40, No. 1, 2010 p. 31 

by Suchitra Gururaj, Julian Vasquez Heilig, and Patricia Somers

This article conducts a meta-analysis of results of studies by Andrieu (1991), DeAngelis (1998), and Liseo (2005) to assess changes over time in the effects of financial aid and other factors on graduate student persistence. These findings present policy implications for improving graduate student retention.