ABSTRACT
In recent years, the world has seen an increase in the number of college enrollments and graduates. The world has also experienced a growth in the use of tuition fees and changes in the manner through which nations assess tuition fees. Understanding the different types of funding mechanisms is vital to learning more about the factors that influence national investment in students' enrollment in and graduation from tertiary education. This study tests both the features internal to each nation and diffusion factors that predict the timing of events related to tertiary education policy for enrollment and graduation. We do this by considering the effect of different types of tuition fee structures across nations.
