Quest for building world-class universities in South Korea: Outcomes and consequences

Higher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 645-659

  Byun, Kiyong ^a   Jon, Jae Eun ^a   Kim, Dongbin ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Global university ranking; Higher education; Policy analysis; South Korea; World class university

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876735734     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9568-6     Document Type: Article

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