The aim of this contribution is to identify the archetypal universities in the
Italian students’ mobility network in terms of their attitude in attracting students.
We define a set of networks according to the disciplinary groups by relying upon
administrative data regarding students’ mobility between bachelor’s and master’s
degrees. For each disciplinary group, a network has been defined by considering
the universities as nodes and the flows of students moving between nodes as links.
Then, in each network, the set of archetypal universities is based on several network
centrality indexes. Finally, these archetypes are used as benchmarks to identify the
main determinants of universities’ performances.
