Measurement of the internationalization process at the best polish economic universities

Due to the growing importance of rankings across Polish higher education and the ongoing discussion about the need of Polish universities to appear on international rankings, the need to measure the internationalization process has increased. Many approaches, instruments and indicators have been developed to measure the internationalization. The list of indicators has included the concept of Brandenburg and Federkeil and Erkol. In addition, the “Perspektywy” and “Rzeczpospolita” rankings have their own lists of indicators.

Existing studies of measuring the internationalization process in Poland has involved some public (state) universities, however they do not include the best economic universities in the country (public or private). The purpose of the article is to choose indicators to measure the internationalization process of the best Polish economic universities. Furthermore to answer the research question “Is the development of internationalization or inhibition at economic universities in Poland?”.

This study takes under consideration the six best economic universities in Poland selected by the “Perspektywy” and “Rzeczpospolita” rankings. The main research method is a comparative analysis. Data was used from the Statistics Poland and the Foundation for the Development of the Education System.