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A Preliminary Model for Assessing University Sustainability from the Student Perspective

doi: 10.3390/su5093690
This paper assesses university sustainability from the perspective of the interested student. A set of questions for a university website analysis is proposed and preliminary results for Swedish universities are presented. The university website analysis intends to emulate a student looking for a university working with sustainable development. University ranking is compared with the results from the sustainability assessment. Results from the study are based on university website analysis of 18 Swedish universities out of a total of 30. Universities are grouped in high ranked, low ranked and benchmark universities. For the majority of the studied universities it was possible to extract the information needed for a sustainability assessment from the website, which indicates that further development of the method is of interest. The average level of performance in the assessment was found to be less than 50% of the maximum of the proposed scale. With Sweden generally being a leading nation in sustainable development the results are below of what could be expected. Ranking, based on the Swedish ranking system does not seem to predict university sustainability performance. The indication is that Gothenburg University, while having further improvement potential, could be considered a benchmark in the Swedish context.
- Luleå University of Technology Sweden
- Karlstad University Sweden
- Uppsala University Sweden
- "LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET Sweden
Tillförlitlighets- och kvalitetsteknik, Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified, student focus, TJ807-830, university ranking, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap, Business Administration, Företagsekonomi, Sweden, sustainability assessment; university sustainability; sustainable development; website analysis; student focus; university ranking; Sweden, sustainable development, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Peace and Conflict Studies, sweden, Freds- och konfliktforskning, website analysis, Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap, Environmental sciences, sustainability assessment, university sustainability, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, Reliability and Maintenance, jel: jel:Q, jel: jel:Q0, jel: jel:Q2, jel: jel:Q3, jel: jel:Q5, jel: jel:O13, jel: jel:Q56
Tillförlitlighets- och kvalitetsteknik, Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified, student focus, TJ807-830, university ranking, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap, Business Administration, Företagsekonomi, Sweden, sustainability assessment; university sustainability; sustainable development; website analysis; student focus; university ranking; Sweden, sustainable development, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Peace and Conflict Studies, sweden, Freds- och konfliktforskning, website analysis, Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap, Environmental sciences, sustainability assessment, university sustainability, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, Reliability and Maintenance, jel: jel:Q, jel: jel:Q0, jel: jel:Q2, jel: jel:Q3, jel: jel:Q5, jel: jel:O13, jel: jel:Q56
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