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This study assessed and evaluated the competitiveness of national human resource development (NHRD) systems in emerging countries with potential for growth. The literature on emerging countries and NHRD systems was reviewed. The study developed a model mechanism with forty-one indices and nine sub-components for the NHRD system assessment in emerging countries. To secure the validity of the components and indices, domestic and foreign experts in human resource development (HRD) and related areas were consulted. Each component and index was weighted using the analytic hierarchical process, and the relevance with related indices was compared and analyzed. The developed indices were found to have high relevance. According to the assessed order and component, an analysis was performed based on NHRD competitiveness rank, the economic standard, and the region. Policy makers and decision-making bodies will find this study informative for policy evaluation related to HRD, particularly in assessing the current status core and how to improve the competitiveness of NHRD systems in emerging countries.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the college selection factors recognized by prospective freshmen in the college selection process, and to analyze the factors affecting them. Various data related to the educational performance of local four-year universities were collected. The results of the survey on university lecture evaluation, curriculum satisfaction, core competency diagnosis, freshman admission rate, enrollment rate, and employment rate were analyzed through correlation and regression analysis. Some factors showed a positive correlation among freshman recruitment rate, employment rate, core competency diagnosis, curriculum satisfaction, and lecture evaluation. In addition, as a result of regression analysis to determine how much the freshman recruitment rate was predicted, the employment rate was adopted. By analyzing these factors, it was found that increasing the employment rate is important for the survival of local universities.