Performance of Universities and Business Schools: Face-to-face and Distance Spanish Institutions

Abstract

In educational matters, there is a clear evolution in the methodologies used as a consequence of the progressive integration of the new Information and Communication technologies. In this sense, the objectiveof this research is to analyze the administrative and financial performance of existing universities and businessschools in the Spanish market under the distance and virtual education modality, seeking to answer thefollowing question: Is it possible, through a analysis of financial performance of Universities and BusinessSchools in Spain, study the behavior of institutions comparing public and private; face-to-face and virtual;considering also the main international rankings that score higher education institutions? It is a qualitativeanalytical work, whose historical research method is analytical-synthetic. Among the results, an economicand financial primacy is evidenced, and in the rankings of private institutions over public institutions andof mixed modalities over merely face-to-face and virtual.