Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States of America and Europe: A Historical, Comparative, and Conceptual Analysis Greenwood Studies in Higher Education

The internationalization of higher education refers to the process of integrating an international/intercultural dimension into the teaching, research, and service functions of the academic institution. This comprehensive analysis describes and compares the historical development of the itnernationalization of higher education in the United States and Europe, as well as providing a comparative and conceptual analysis of the current situation in the field.

The increasingly international focus of higher education is dialectically related to the present globalization and regionalization of our societies and markets. As a result, the importance of quality assessment of internationalization strategies has grown, international academic consortia and networks have emerged, and English has been firmly established as the language of communication in higher education.