Conscription of college students constitutes a key component of national defense manpower recruitment. College-based conscription involves multiple stakeholders including military service authorities, institutions of higher education, students’ families and social-market entities. The overall efficiency of conscription directly hinges on effective collaboration among these diverse actors. Adopting collaborative governance as an analytical perspective, this paper draws on 3,238 questionnaires from enrolled college students in Nanjing universities, 25 questionnaires for conscription practitioners, and conscription statistics spanning 2015-2018. This study sorts out the current status of multi-agent collaboration in college student conscription in Nanjing. It identifies bottlenecks in institutional, informational, resource-based and cognitive dimensions of collaboration. Furthermore, it constructs a four-in-one collaborative governance framework of “government-university-family-society”. Practical approaches to boosting conscription efficiency are proposed in terms of improving institutional coordination, facilitating information sharing, strengthening resource integration and expanding social collaboration. This study provides decision-making references for local authorities to optimize college-student conscription work.
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Jiang, C., Lv, L. (2026) Research on Improving the Efficiency of College Student Conscription in Nanjing Universities from the Perspective of Collaborative Governance. Global Education Bulletin, 3(5), 54-61. https://doi.org/10.71052/grb2025/KDRF9729