Universities’ enrollment challenge: The role of corporate image in higher education
Universities’ enrollment challenge: The role of corporate image in higher education
Author(s): Nejla Manov, Alisa Mujkić, Melika Husić-MedvedovićSubject(s): Economy, Higher Education
Published by: Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Ekonomski fakultet u Osijeku
Keywords: corporate image; satisfaction; loyalty; enrollment intentions; higher education;
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on gathering information regarding the importance of the university image for students and its influence on student satisfaction, loyalty and enrollment intentions. Consequently, the main aim of the paper is to evaluate whether the corporate image of a particular higher education institution affects students’ satisfaction, loyalty and enrollment intentions. The results of the MANOVA analysis show a significant correlation between corporate image and satisfaction, explaining that corporate image influences satisfaction among students. Without any doubt, as confirmed in this paper, the corporate image construct has a strong and remarkable influence on satisfaction, loyalty and enrollment intentions of students. Having in mind the importance of the corporate image construct, it is proven to be a strong antecedent for all three determinants, satisfaction, loyalty and enrollment intentions, whose positive effect is crucial for the survival of the universities worldwide, which presents the main practical contribution of the paper.
- Issue Year: 33/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 205-216
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English