A study by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, entitled “Leisure College, USA” makes the claim that college students studied about 14 hours a week in 2003 in comparison to the 24 hours a week students studied in 1961.
The findings of this study also show that this decline has nothing to do with the type of institution a student attends, whether or not they work, or what they choose to study.
The study was written by two professors from the University of California, Mindy Marks and Philip Babcock. Babcock says the research was inspired by a similar survey that pertained only to students of the University of California, “The study-time numbers looked quite low to us, and we wondered if this was true across the nation and if it had always been true.”