Add to ORKGFollowing the recent recruitment crisis in two-year colleges, especially in rural areas, interest has increased in fostering understanding, and in building close relationships, between those two-year colleges on the supply side on human resources development, and the industries on the demand side for human resources development, thereby raising important questions about their mutual functions in promoting regional development. The study was undertaken on behalf of Korean college level vocational department management, especially that of two-year colleges. The main objective of this study was to identify the main determinants of competitiveness of two-year colleges in order to construct an understandably comprehensive framework of regional i...