| Financing American higher education in the era of globalization W Zumeta, DW Breneman, PM Callan, JE Finney Harvard Education Press, 2021 | 309 | 2021 |
| Public policy and accountability in higher education: Lessons from the past and present for the new millennium W Zumeta The states and public higher education policy: Affordability, access, and …, 2001 | 250 | 2001 |
| Meeting the demand for higher education without breaking the bank: A framework for the design of state higher education policies for an era of increasing demand W Zumeta The Journal of Higher Education 67 (4), 367-425, 1996 | 142 | 1996 |
| State higher education financing: Demand imperatives meet structural, cyclical, and political constraints W Zumeta Public funding of higher education: Changing contexts and new rationales, 79-107, 2004 | 139 | 2004 |
| What matters in increasing community college students’ upward transfer to the baccalaureate degree: Findings from the beginning postsecondary study 2003–2009 RR LaSota, W Zumeta Research in Higher Education 57, 152-189, 2016 | 135 | 2016 |
| What does it mean to be accountable?: Dimensions and implications of higher education's public accountability WM Zumeta The Review of Higher Education 35 (1), 131-148, 2011 | 122 | 2011 |
| The Global Growth of Private Higher Education. K Kinser, DC Levy, JCS Casillas, A Bernasconi, S Slantcheva-Durst, ... ASHE higher education report 36 (3), 1-158, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
| State policies and private higher education: Policies, correlates, and linkages W Zumeta The Journal of Higher Education 63 (4), 363-417, 1992 | 103 | 1992 |
| Public university accountability to the state in the late twentieth century: Time for a rethinking? WM Zumeta Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, 1998 | 98 | 1998 |
| The great recession: Implications for higher education W Zumeta The NEA, 29-42, 2010 | 95 | 2010 |
| Extending the educational ladder: The changing quality and value of postdoctoral study WM Zumeta (No Title), 1985 | 69 | 1985 |
| Accountability: Challenges for higher education W Zumeta The NEA 2000 Almanac of Higher Education 2000, 57-71, 2000 | 65 | 2000 |
| Past, Present and Future W Zumeta The finance of higher education: Theory, research, policy, and practice, 355, 2001 | 54* | 2001 |
| The state of state college readiness policies GH Blume, WM Zumeta American Behavioral Scientist 58 (8), 1071-1092, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| What matters for excellence in PhD programs? Latent constructs of doctoral program quality used by early career social scientists E Morrison, E Rudd, W Zumeta, M Nerad The Journal of Higher Education 82 (5), 535-563, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| California Community Colleges: Making Them Stronger and More Affordable. National Center Report# 07-1. W Zumeta, D Frankle National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| State support of higher education: The roller coaster plunges downward yet again W Zumeta Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy 1 (1), 4, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| State support for higher education AY Li, W Zumeta The Palgrave international handbook of higher education policy and …, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Effects of key state policies on private colleges and universities: Sustaining private-sector capacity in the face of the higher education access challenge F Thompson, W Zumeta Economics of Education Review 20 (6), 517-531, 2001 | 39 | 2001 |
| State-level responses to the access and completion challenge in the new era of austerity W Doyle, W Zumeta The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 655 (1 …, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
