| Abstract [eng] |
Higher education institutions nowadays meet with various chalanges concerning the changing world. Those traditional organizations have to conform to the society‘s demands by accepting new tasks and objectives. One of the new subjects, universities have to accept is to start developing organization‘s public relations by finding a new tools for communication with it‘s audiences. The aim of the master thesis was to research an influence of higher education institutions rankings to it‘s public relations. The main tasks were to analyse the particularity of higher education institution, to discuss on the development and tendency of organizing university rankings, to discuss the features of the public relations of higher education institutions, to find the possible influence of the rankings to organization and to perform a survey on the basis of findings on literature analysis. The research methods used to prepare the research were an analysis of the scientific literature and an interview with the experts of public relations from the Lithuanian higher educatian institutions. The research showed that higher education institutions rankings have a very close conection to the organization‘s reputation. Various of scientists have noticed the impact of the position of the ranking to the institution‘s reputation. The results of comparison of the higher education institution‘s image aspects to the ranking criteria, shows a high similarity as well. Due to the results of the literature analysis, the research of Lithuanian Higher education institutions was made. The results of the interviews revealed that the situation is quite controversial. The universities understant the impact of the rankings to the institution and it‘s audiences but only the high possition in the ranking tables is used as the message for communication. If the university takes up lower position, the rankins used to be ignored. |
