Comprehensive Evaluation of Sustainable Development of Entrepreneurship Education in Chinese Universities Using Entropy–TOPSIS Method

Abstract

A comprehensive evaluation is important for the sustainable development of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. Specifically, evaluating entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities from the perspective of teachers, as stakeholders of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, can provide a basis for decision making to improve the quality of entrepreneurship education. Using the improved entropy–TOPSIS method, this study selects 35 indicators from five aspects, namely, curriculum systems, organizational leadership, faculty construction, teaching management, and an institutional guarantee, to establish a sustainable and comprehensive evaluation framework for entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. Survey data from a questionnaire of college teachers in 11 provinces (cities) in China’s Yangtze River economic zone are used. The objective is to propose a framework that enables a comprehensive evaluation of the sustainability of entrepreneurship education and to develop a new evaluation method that highlights the challenges in evaluating the sustainability of entrepreneurship education, including the selection and effective measurement of the evaluation criteria. The study provides a scientific basis and support for decision making on the optimal reform of entrepreneurship education, faculty allocation, and education methods in Chinese universities and contributes to the realization of the goal of sustainable development of entrepreneurship education in universities.