ABSTRACT
An academically motivated high school leaver might be more interested in cooperative education programme, it might have a gender difference, and it might be the faculty which encourages or discourages the programme due to its curriculum policy. This chapter shows how one can proceed to verify such statements with a particular interest. It discusses the Kyoto Sangyo University (KSU) student data are used with the econometric methodology. The chapter is based on and extended from Tanaka. KSU was founded in 1965 and is a medium-sized private university in Japan with about 13,000 students in nine undergraduate faculties. The data have been collected from all 5,473 undergraduate students who graduated in March of 2008 and 2009, 2,739 and 2,734 respectively. This chapter shows how econometric methods can be used on available data for cooperative education, to identify the background for students taking cooperative education courses.
