摘要：Current paper focuses on identifying indicators on higher education within the EuropeanUnion that build up the evolution of higher education within the last years. Due to this approach,the performed analysis focuses on tendencies and trends regarding indicators concerning thenumber of students, their international mobility, proportion of higher education graduates,employability of graduates and their market insertion but also on expenditure regardingeducation within various EU countries. The analysis also builds on comparisons regardingtendencies of indicators and focuses on the emerging trends concerning higher education withinRomania, as a country member of the European Union. The findings of this research samplemay serve as an incentive in performing future researches concerning corporate governance inhigher education, highlighting the main aspects to be considered when designing appropriateways in identifying needs and expectations of the major interested parties within the educationalprocess in a way that teaching-learning processes to be designed respond in an appropriatemanner to the expectations of the social-economical environment.
