Designing the model of External Factors for Universitie’s promotion in National and International Rankings

Abstract

The present study aimed at designing the external factors model for promoting universities in national and international Rankings through exploratory mixed method. The statistical population in the qualitative section included policymakers and experts in higher education, university administrators and faculty members who were selected through targeted sampling and 17 interviewes were done. Also, in the quantitative section of the statistical society, 600 university administrators ,state universities of Tehran, among which 302 people by Stratified random sampling method were selected. The data in the qualitative section were analyzed through semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire was extracted from the statistical sample and analyzed using spss and smart-pls software. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and a divergent and convergent validity test. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha and Composite Reliability software. According to the findings, the external factors effecting the university promotion can be categorized into five factors: international policy-making, industry-university collaboration, accountability towards stakeholders, higher education rules and regulations and ranking-scientometrics systems.

Keywords

• extra-university factors
• ranking
• exploratory research
• factor analysis