Assessing Top Universities in Slovakia and Neighboring Countries: A Study on University Social Responsibility Excellence
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Corporate social responsibility is one of the topics that both lay and especially professional public have been focusing on for quite some time.Several scientific publications have been written on this topic, bringing valuable information and, above all, clarity and coherence to the issue.Despite this, new findings continue to emerge, and one of the newer approaches is university social responsibility.It is an analogy to corporate social responsibility but at the level of universities.We chose this topic because there is a lack of scientific outputs in this very interesting, stimulating, but above all important area of sustainability and responsibility in Slovakia.After all, universities are places where responsibility plays a key role not only in science, research, and education but also in social, environmental, and ecological matters.Paper's objective(s) and research background: The aim of the submitted article is to assess university social responsibility in Slovakia and neighboring countries.Data/Methods: In the submitted article, we analyze selected countries: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, and Poland.We compare scores from two rankings: UI Greenmetric World University Rankings and the Center for World University Rankings.The analyzed year was 2023.For a better understanding, we also provide information on how the monitored countries rank in the rankings compared to the top universities in Europe, the European Union, and the world.We assessed the normality of the data for the top 200 universities in Europe in the UI GreenMetric ranking using Q-Q plots, and then performed a Kruskal-Wallis test for 17 countries (represented among the top 200 universities in the UI GreenMetric ranking) across six areas measured by the UI GreenMetric.Results/Conclusions/Value added: The best university in Slovakia in the field of university social responsibility is the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra.It achieved the highest scores in all six analyzed subcategories of the ranking.According to CWUR, there are four universities in Slovakia that belong to the Top 2000 best universities in the world, with only one of them also ranking in the university social responsibility assessment.
Author: Alexandra Filová
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4408415916