Higher education institutions face an increasing demand for developing a renewed set of competencies of college students who will live in the knowledge-based society. However, relatively little is known about what constitutes the core competencies tha...
Higher education institutions face an increasing demand for developing a renewed set of competencies of college students who will live in the knowledge-based society. However, relatively little is known about what constitutes the core competencies that college students need to develop and how we improve those competencies at college. Using survey data from 1,366 undergraduate students and 318 faculty members from 4-year institutions, we found that the level of students' perceived competencies tended to be somewhat behind their expectations, and that several factors, open administration system, quality of instruction, and job preparation activities, turned out to improve the core competencies that students perceived. Implications of these and related findings are discussed.