THE IMPACT OF A QUALITY UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ON MARINE CORPS OFFICER PERFORMANCE

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dc.contributor.advisorSeagren, Chad W.
dc.contributor.advisorTick, Simona L.
dc.contributor.authorKing, Nicholas S.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Defense Management (DDM)
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-10T17:15:47Z
dc.date.available2022-06-10T17:15:47Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractTo meet the demands of future conflicts against increasingly capable adversaries, the Marine Corps must recruit, promote, and retain the most capable officers. Yet, every year money is spent training and educating Marine officers, and each year high performing and capable officers voluntarily separate, resulting in Marine Corps talent loss. The goal of this thesis was to determine if the type of college attended predicts performance of career-level officers. U.S. universities with Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps were grouped by selectivity. Models used ordinary least squares to predict officer retention at 5-, 7-, 10-, and 15-year career milestones and a logit model to study predictive variables for promotion to Major. Our results suggest that graduates of top-ranked public or private universities are less likely to be retained in the first 10 years of service. Graduates of top-ranked private universities who decide to stay in the Marines are more likely to retain at 15 years and promote to Major. Graduates of bottom-ranked public universities are more likely to retain at 7 years of service but are less likely to remain on active duty at 15 years or promote to Major. A Marine’s accession source was not found to be a significant factor in predicting promotion or retention after controlling for gender and race. Since school type retention rates were found to be similar, results do not support any policy changes that emphasize recruitment from a particular college type.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.en_US
dc.description.serviceMajor, United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.identifier.curriculumcode817, Defense Systems Analysis
dc.identifier.thesisid37126
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/69660
dc.publisherMonterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorMarine officeren_US
dc.subject.authorundergraduate educationen_US
dc.subject.authorperformance metricsen_US
dc.subject.authorpromotion statisticsen_US
dc.subject.authorperformance predictoren_US
dc.subject.authoraccessionsen_US
dc.subject.authorretentionen_US
dc.titleTHE IMPACT OF A QUALITY UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ON MARINE CORPS OFFICER PERFORMANCEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineManagementen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Managementen_US
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