Abstract: The article presents the findings from the study of socio-economic status (SES) of students of several Polish higher education institutions that differ in prestige. The author tries to answer the following question: what determines individual choices of which tertiary school to study at? The question is particularly seminal in the context of Polish higher education system, which can be rightly perceived to be highly stratified in prestige and quality of schools and very diverse in terms of social composition of student body, the latter being, i...
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