This study investigates the relation between Taiwan’s public university expenditure on students and the suspensions and dropouts among different degree systems. If more school spending is allocated to items related to students’ academic learning, does it help lower the number of suspensions and dropouts? The focus is put on four expenditure sectors concerning students’ study in 52 public universities from 2014 to 2022. I calculate a school’s (1) relative expenditure levels across all public institutions and (2) the expenditure growth rates compared to the school’s previous year to better represent the conditions. Then, generalized linear regressions are conducted to determine the influence of expenditures on suspensions and dropouts. The results show that, first, schools having higher spending on sectors of student subsidy and cooperative education lead to lower suspension and dropout rates, but for schools with more expenditures allocated to continuing education sector and teaching & research sector, the rates are higher. Second, if high expenditures are allocated across the four sectors, the estimated suspension and dropout rates in bachelor program of continuing education and traditional master’s program can be 2.83% to 4.23% lower, compared to schools investing low expenditures in the same four sectors. Lastly, suspensions are reduced when higher expenditure growth rates are shown in sectors of student subsidy, continuing education, and teaching & research. A higher expenditure growth rate in teaching & research sector brings the most significant effect, where a 10% growth rate reduce suspension rate by 0.72% to 1.56% in some degree systems.

Authors:
Ted Chang, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Ted Chang is a Civil Servant at National Academy for Educational Research in Taiwan

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