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The Relationship between Higher Education Comprehensive Internationalization and the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings and Reputation Scores

Watkins, Molly
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-7513
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1620222921596289

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Higher Education.
The comprehensive internationalization of higher education has long been viewed as important for student development and institutional global research engagement. The reasons for internationalization have been studied in-depth, but few studies exist linking higher education internationalization and institutional reputation, often measured through ranking systems. Grounded in internationalization literature and reputation theories from the field of organizational management, this dissertation examines the relationship between the comprehensive internationalization of higher education and the U. S. News and World Report college rankings reputation scores and overall rankings. Using a sample of 259 institutions that both completed the American Council on Education’s 2016 Mapping of Internationalization survey and were ranked in the USNWR college rankings in 2016, this study found that multiple significant correlations exist between internationalization and the USNWR college rankings and reputation scores. Additionally, comprehensive internationalization emerged as a predictor of both reputation scores, explaining 34% of the variance, and of ranking scores, explaining 26.4% of the variance.
Snejana Slantcheva-Durst, PhD (Committee Chair)
Tony Lingham, PhD (Committee Member)
Gilbert Merkx, PhD (Committee Member)
Ronald Opp, PhD (Committee Member)
202 p.
Higher Education; Higher Education Administration
college, higher education, international, global, rankings, reputation, university, study abroad, internationalization, international research, rankings indicators, US News and World Report, league tables

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  • Watkins, M. (2021). The Relationship between Higher Education Comprehensive Internationalization and the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings and Reputation Scores [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1620222921596289

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Watkins, Molly. The Relationship between Higher Education Comprehensive Internationalization and the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings and Reputation Scores. 2021. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1620222921596289.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Watkins, Molly. "The Relationship between Higher Education Comprehensive Internationalization and the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings and Reputation Scores." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1620222921596289

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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