Competitiveness of the University Offer: An Empirical Cluster Analysis of the Galician University System

Fernandez Lopez, Sara; Rodeiro, David; Ruzo, Emilio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.532402

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Competitiveness of the University Offer: An Empirical Cluster Analysis of the Galician University System

17 Pages Posted: 12 Sep 2005

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Sara Fernandez Lopez

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Faculty of Economic Science and Business Studies

David Rodeiro

Departament Acounting and Finance; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Departmamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad

Emilio Ruzo

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Faculty of Economic Science and Business Studies

Date Written: July 2004

Abstract

Environment of higher education has notably changed in the last decades. The high enrollment, which characterized of Spanish university system during the eighties and nineties, has been currently reversed because of drastic reductions of students. This fact is at the root of the increasing in competition between different Universities. So, this paper aims to analyse the current competitive advantage to Galician universities of offering several attractive degrees.

Keywords: university offer, university demand, competitiveness, analysis cluster

JEL Classification: I22, I28, H52

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Fernandez Lopez, Sara and Rodeiro, David and Ruzo, Emilio, Competitiveness of the University Offer: An Empirical Cluster Analysis of the Galician University System (July 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=532402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.532402