Todays universities are confronted with a difficult situation that they should carry out a substantial reform and the strategy for survival in accordance with the change of the domestic educational environment in which disparity between demand and sup...
Todays universities are confronted with a difficult situation that they should carry out a substantial reform and the strategy for survival in accordance with the change of the domestic educational environment in which disparity between demand and supply is getting serious as well as the expansion of the educational service providers. This study set out to identify the fact that the quality level of the educational service and a favorable brand image of a university students recognize have a positive impact on satisfaction with the educational service, and based on it, to offer the ground for the establishment of marketing strategies to overcome the competitive situation of universities.
The purpose of this study is summarized as follows: first, to analyze and foresee the changes in the system of demand and supply that our universities are currently facing and consider the necessity of introducing an educational service marketing to respond to the change of educational environment; second, to investigate the decisive factors in a universitys brand image as well as the factors that influence the assessment of the educational service quality, and propose solutions applied to the educational service marketing; third, universities now may have to provide a high-quality educational service based on a marketing concept to raise satisfaction with the educational service. In line with this series of logics, I purpose to find solutions for enhancing the competitiveness of universities through positive analyses and connect the solutions with the realities of our current university education to contribute to the development of the educational service. To accomplish this purpose, document researches were conducted along with positive analyses. Based on the materials from the document researches, a study model for a positive analysis came out. A questionnaire survey was carried out for the undergraduates of Sookmyung Womens University to examine the model, and then the results from the examination were analyzed.
The results from the positive analysis in this study were followed. First, a universitys tangibility has a positive effect on the assessment of the educational service quality. Second, a universitys communication activities and the awareness of a universitys practical strategies have an impact on raising its brand image. Third, the more positive brand image a university has, the higher the assessment is of the educational service quality provided by the university.
This studys strategic suggestions were summed up as follows. First, the assessment of the educational service quality by consumers is made on the basis of tangible factors. Accordingly, it is necessary to make a substantial effort to improve the tangibility of the educational service quality. Second, when consumers are highly aware of a universitys practical strategies along with active communication activities, a positive brand image of the university is created. To do this, universities should try to create a favorable brand image of them by setting up differentiated marketing strategies. Third, efforts should be made to establish a positive brand image of a university to build up the confidence in a high-quality educational service, too.
A positive brand image of a university and a high quality of educational service create customer satisfaction. Therefore, universities need to draw customer satisfaction by creating differentiated brand images after identifying the needs of the target consumers, or the students.
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