Marinela Ghereș (marinela.gheres@econ.ubbcluj.ro)
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca
Anuța Buiga (anuta.buiga@econ.ubbcluj.ro)
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca
Alexandru Chiș (alexandru.chis@ubbcluj.ro)
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca
Emilia Gogu (emilia.gogu@csie.ase.ro)
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics, Bucharest
ABSTRACT
The motivation of this study is the desire to understand what the factors contributing to a high level of education quality are in the opinion of final year undergraduate students., respectively how well they are prepared for their career. The research was part of one implemented by a group of ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) so that the information obtained is intended to be used on a larger scale to produce a report related to the quality of the entire higher education process in Romania. The study was carried out at the national level in all university centres in Romania. The questionnaire includes socio-demographic questions, such as the area and the university centre where the respondents study, as well as the branch of science (field). The set of questions was applied to 14275 students from the last year of study, undergraduate level. After removing questionnaires that did not have answers to all questions, 13072 questionnaires remained for analysis. IBM SPSS 25 software, factor analysis and Two-Step Cluster analysis were used for the analysis. The originality of this research lies in the fact that it offers solutions regarding the constructive dialogue between teachers-students-employers.
Keywords: Quality of educational services; Digital technologies; Competencies; Labour market; Career
JEL: I21, I23, J24, I26, J21, J31, J24, J62.
