Erasmus Students’ Mobility Priorities: A Rank-Order Scaling Study
Öz
Promoting mobility among students and staff was among the earliest European initiatives
in higher education and is still among the most visible. Bologna process has played a prominent
role in promoting mobility by establishing more compatible course patterns and encouraging
greater transparency. Student mobility involved 213,266 people distributed among the twentyseven
states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, and
Turkey. The purpose of this study is to identify the preferences studying abroad and present the
priorities of incoming and outgoing Erasmus students’ university preference among the ranked
items. According to the rank ordering scaling findings; incoming students prioritized the university
related factors while outgoing students prioritized the factors related social environment.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Erasmus students,Bologna process,mobility,rank-order scaling
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