How Can Entrepreneurship Education Be Improved? Contributions for the University Education
Abstract
It is evident the interest of the European Union to encourage Entrepreneurship Education in universities, as well as public entities such as the Spanish government through the universities normative. The objective of this research is to analyze the presence of Entrepreneurship Education in the ranking methodology to measure Higher Education Institutions (Universities and Business Schools). Therefore, the research question formulated is: How do the indicators used by the world rankings measure the performance of universities in Entrepreneurship Education? Using data from the International Ranking Expert Group Observatory, the categories of Global University Ranking and Ranking of Business Schools are selected, representing a total of 30 rankings as a sample of the study. Our findings concluded that the European Commission and the Spanish government work on creating a public framework to encourage entrepreneurship education but the international rankings sample does not select entrepreneurship as a criterion to measure the university and business school performance.
Received: 13 February 2023
Accepted: 13 July 2023
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