A multilevel Analysis of University attractiveness in the network flows from Bachelor to Master’s degree

In this work we aim to study the mobility choices of Italian students in the transition from bachelor to masters degree in order to assess the role played by the field of study. We consider micro-data from the Italian National Student Archive on a cohort of students enrolled for the first time at the university in a.y. 2011-12 who enrolled to a master degree program in the a.y. 2014-15 or 2015-16. We study the incoming and outgoing flows of students moving from bachelor to master’s degree between provinces and universities. We then assess the effects on mover choices of network centrality measures in terms of hub and authorities adopting a multilevel multinomial logit model.