Susan Choy

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Susan Choy
Former Regional Director,
RTI International

Susan Choy was regional director for RTI International. She formerly served as president and vice president of MPR Associates, Inc. (acquired by RTI), a Berkeley, California consulting firm that conducted innovative research and developed practical tools to inform education policy and practice from K–12 through adult education. For more than 25 years, Choy conducted research on postsecondary access, persistence, and student financial aid, primarily for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). She contributed to the design and analysis of NCES’s cross-sectional and longitudinal postsecondary sample surveys and authored numerous NCES reports on these topics. Choy received her PhD in public administration from New York University.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
College access & postsecondary success
Publications by Susan Choy
One Million Hours a Day Vocational Education in California Public Secondary Schools
One Million Hours a Day
Vocational Education in California Public Secondary Schools
California invests heavily in high school vocational education, but it does not effectively prepare students for the labor market. To improve outcomes, vocational education should teach problem-solving and teamwork, integrate with academics, and…