Do Rankings Affect Universities' Financial Sustainability? -- Financial Vulnerability to Rankings and Elite Status as a Positional Good

Autor/inn/en	Baltaru, Roxana-Diana; Manac, Radu-Dragomir; Ivan, Miruna-Daniela
Titel	Do Rankings Affect Universities' Financial Sustainability? -- Financial Vulnerability to Rankings and Elite Status as a Positional Good
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 11, S.2323-2335 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2022.2061447
Schlagwörter	Colleges; Reputation; Status; Educational Finance; Sustainability; Achievement Rating; Foreign Countries; Institutional Characteristics; Income; Tuition; Competition; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Bildungsfonds; Nachhaltigkeit; Achievement; Rating; Leistung; Beurteilung; Leistungsbeurteilung; Ausland; Einkommen; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Wettkampf
Abstract	University rankings envision a level playing field between competing universities, particularly in higher education (HE) systems regulated along market lines. Drawing on social stratification theory, we argue that rankings exacerbate, rather than alleviate, resource inequalities between universities with historically consolidated reputations (elite universities) and all other universities (non-elite universities). We test this argument empirically by assessing the role of elite status in moderating the effect of rankings on universities' financial sustainability. Using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset with yearly organisational data on 102 English universities from 2008 to 2017, we find that the rank a university occupies in league tables affects all universities except elite universities, controlling for previous level of financial sustainability and institutional level differences. We further show that this relationship is partly explained by universities' income from tuition fees. The findings document universities' financial vulnerability to rankings in quasi-markets of higher education and the reinforcement of elite status as a positional good. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01