Erasmus Students’ Mobility Priorities: A Rank-Order Scaling Study

Erasmus Öğrencilerinin Hareketlilik Öncelikleri: Bir Sıralama Ölçeği Çalışması

Eren Halil ÖZBERK, Nagihan BOZTUNÇ ÖZTÜRK, Leyla YILMAZ FINDIK, Suzan Beyza KAPTI

Abstract

Promoting mobility among students and staff was among the earliest European initiativesin higher education and is still among the most visible. Bologna process has played a prominentrole in promoting mobility by establishing more compatible course patterns and encouraginggreater transparency. Student mobility involved 213,266 people distributed among the twentysevenstates of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, andTurkey. The purpose of this study is to identify the preferences studying abroad and present thepriorities of incoming and outgoing Erasmus students’ university preference among the rankeditems. According to the rank ordering scaling findings; incoming students prioritized the universityrelated factors while outgoing students prioritized the factors related social environment.

Özet

Öğrenci ve personel değişim programları yükseköğretimde ilk başlarda olduğu gibi

Keywords: Erasmus öğrecileri, Bologna süreci, değişim programları, sıralama ölçeği