Greater participation in higher education and the improvement in completion rates are on the agenda in most European countries. At the same time, higher education has been through a range of reforms (e.g. the Bologna process) making higher education systems more similar, even though regime-inherent differences still exist. With the backdrop of these ambiguities, the aim of this article is to investigate differences and similarities in study success policies in higher education across four European country cases, classified as liberal, socio-democratic, conservative and hybrid. The policies are related to funding, teaching and learning as well as to student information and support. Using secondary case study data, we do not find a clear trend of policy patterns reflecting the different higher educational regimes. However, in line with the literature, for funding we find a pattern that clearly reflects the different regimes. Given limitations, we suggest some implications for further research.

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研究高等教育体制中的成功政策模式：相似多于差异？

大多数欧洲国家都将更多地参与高等教育和提高完成率提上了日程。与此同时，高等教育经历了一系列改革（例如博洛尼亚进程），使高等教育体系更加相似，尽管制度内在的差异仍然存在。在这些含糊不清的背景下，本文的目的是调查四个欧洲国家案例中高等教育研究成功政策的差异和相似之处，分为自由主义、社会民主主义、保守主义和混合主义。这些政策与资金、教学和学习以及学生信息和支持有关。使用二级案例研究数据，我们没有发现反映不同高等教育制度的政策模式的明显趋势。然而，与文献一致，对于资金，我们发现了一种模式，可以清楚地反映不同的制度。鉴于局限性，我们提出了一些对进一步研究的影响。