An Empirical Study of Benchmark of Universities : With Reference to the University Evaluation and Quality Assurance

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The purpose of this research project is studying benchmark methods in higher education, in order to assure and enhance the individual higher education institutions. To accomplish this purpose the data of individual higher educations are gathered mainly from the published sources such as homepages of institutions. Simultaneously we had intensive interviews for higher education institutions and public institutes such as Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in England. In England subject benchmark statements are used for the reference of enhancement and assurance of each university. In the United States the intermediate organizations such as Consortium for Financing of Higher Education (COFHE) or American Association of Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE) have an important role in benchmarking. Based on these findings we make a benchmark model and try a tentative benchmark of nine universities in four countries. It is very difficult to compare the figures because the definitions of the most basic characteristics such as student numbers or faculty numbers are very different among countries. However we can compare the rough sketches of nine universities, and found there are so many common characteristics such as student numbers. We can show the usefulness of our model.