Quantitative research on the identification of possibilities for the improvement of the university curriculum

Abstract

Student's satisfaction with university curricula and their perception regarding professional training for their future career are important factors in the recruitment, selection and employment process, in relation to the evolution of labor demand, universities are forced to redesign and adapt their programs of studies and implicitly the educational plans to respond to market requirements. The aim pursued in this paper is to test the perception of students from the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Business of the Ștefan cel Mare University in Suceava regarding the university curriculum and the skills acquired during the study program. In order to achieve the proposed goal, we formulated the following objectives: O1- review of specialized literature on student satisfaction; O2 – highlighting the level of satisfaction of students; O3 – identifying possibilities for improving the university curriculum. The research methodology is specific to quantitative research, based on a questionnaire, to which 130 students responded out of a total of 165 students. The obtained results are concretized in the profile of the students from the Accounting and Management Informatics study program according to the level of satisfaction, evaluated with the help of independent variables: NSSDS - (Students' level of satisfaction regarding the subjects studied); NSSIF (Student Satisfaction Level with Faculty); CCPM (The skills offered by the curriculum are oriented towards the labor market); CDTS (The curriculum is oriented towards the long-term development of students) and the dependent variable NSSCU (Student satisfaction level regarding university curricula). The importance of the results is relevant for potential students who will want to access these programs, for employers, because they have the opportunity to monitor the students' requirements and to better understand possible situations of non-adaptation to the workplace and last but not least the Ministry of Education which should pay continuous attention to correlating the requirements of the labor market with the university curriculum.