SEM for the Effect Analysis of Brain Korea 21 on Students Satisfaction

구조방정식모형을 이용한 두뇌한국(BK)21의 학생만족도 성과 분석

Brain Korea(BK) 21 is a plan launched in 2000 to strengthen the competitiveness of research and education quality of universities in Korea. In this paper, we evaluate BK21 plan using both ACSI and SEM in terms of the satisfaction level of graduate students in various dimension. The results of our study indicate that in general BK21 has a significant impact on the satisfaction of the graduate students involved in BK21. It turns out that the scholarship is the only one component which is positively related to the students' satisfaction while the industry-university cooperation system and the international conference attendance and Journal publication have negative relationship with satisfaction. In addition, it appears that those who graduated from other college and participate in BK21 tend to be more satisfied than those who admitted to the graduate program from the same college. Our study results imply that some strategies for BK21 need to be modified and effectively implemented in order to increase the number of applicant of good quality and level up the satisfaction level of the graduate students in Korea.