Satisfaction assessment is a vital dimension of strategic marketing consciousness and practice. Yet the study of student satisfaction in higher education is underdeveloped. This empirical study tests, and demonstrates, the utility of the disconfirmation perspective of consumer satisfaction as a theoretical foundation and method for evaluating student satisfaction within the context of an MBA program.
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