| A history of American higher education JR Thelin JHU Press, 2011 | 4818 | 2011 |
| Games colleges play: Scandal and reform in intercollegiate athletics JR Thelin JHU Press, 1996 | 559 | 1996 |
| Historical overview of American higher education JR Thelin, M Gasman Student services: A handbook for the profession 4 (3-22), 2003 | 380 | 2003 |
| Philanthropy and American higher education J Thelin, R Trollinger Springer, 2014 | 120 | 2014 |
| Higher Education and Its Useful Past. Applied History in Research and Planning. JR Thelin Schenkman Publishing Company Inc., 3 Mount Auburn Place, Cambridge, MA 02138., 1982 | 101 | 1982 |
| Higher education and the public trough: A historical perspective JR Thelin Public funding of higher education: Changing contexts and new rationales, 21-39, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| The Old College Try. Balancing Academics and Athletics in Higher Education. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 4, 1989. JR Thelin, LL Wiseman ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, The George Washington University, One …, 1989 | 97 | 1989 |
| Good sports? Historical perspective on the political economy of intercollegiate athletics in the era of Title IX, 1972–1997 JR Thelin The Journal of Higher Education 71 (4), 391-410, 2000 | 70 | 2000 |
| American higher education: Issues and institutions JR Thelin Routledge, 2022 | 69 | 2022 |
| Historical development JR Thelin, JR Edwards, E Moyen Encyclopedia of education, 3, 1034-1041, 2003 | 63* | 2003 |
| Fiction to fact: College novels and the study of higher education JR Thelin, BK Townsend Higher education: Handbook of theory and research 4, 183-211, 1988 | 49 | 1988 |
| Bricks and mortar: Architecture and the study of higher education JR Thelin, J Yankovich Higher education: Handbook of theory and research 3 (1), 57-83, 1987 | 46 | 1987 |
| Essential documents in the history of American higher education JR Thelin JHU Press, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Beyond the background music: Historical research on admissions and access in higher education J Thelin Higher education: Handbook of theory and research 1, 349-380, 1985 | 39 | 1985 |
| Higher education in the United States: Historical development, system JR Thelin, JR Edwards, E Moyen, JB Berger, MV Calkins Education Encyclopedia, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| Success and excess: The contours and character of American higher education since 1960 JR Thelin Society 50, 106-114, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| College Students and the Curriculum: The Fantastic Voyage of Higher Education, 1636 to the Present. JR Thelin, AS Hirschy NACADA journal 29 (2), 2009 | 37 | 2009 |
| Academics and athletics: A part and apart in the American campus JR Thelin Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 1 (1), 72-81, 2008 | 37* | 2008 |
| The Cultivation of Ivy. A Saga of the College in America. JR Thelin Schenkman Publishing Company, 3 Mt. Auburn Place, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, 1976 | 37 | 1976 |
| Why did college cost so little? Affordability and higher education a century ago JR Thelin Society 52, 585-589, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
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