Cross-national analyses of university curricula are rare, particularly with a focus on internationalization, commonly studied as impacting higher education through the mobility of people, programs, and campuses. By contrast, we argue that university knowledge shapes globalization by producing various sociopolitical conceptions beyond the nation-state. We examine variants of such a globalized society in 442,283 study programs from 17,129 universities in 183 countries. Three variants stand out, which vary across disciplines: an interstate model (prevalent in business and political science), a regional model (in political science and law), and a global model (in development studies and natural sciences). Regression models carried out on a subset of these data indicate that internationalized curricula are more likely in business schools, in universities with international offices, in those with a large number of social science offerings, and in those with membership in international university associations. We discuss these findings and their links to changes in universities’ environment, stressing the recursive relationship between globalization and higher education.

对大学课程的跨国分析很少见，特别是侧重于国际化，通常被认为是通过人员，课程和校园的流动性影响高等教育。相比之下，我们认为大学知识通过在民族国家之外产生各种社会政治观念来塑造全球化。我们在来自183个国家的17,129所大学的442,283个学习计划中研究了这种全球化社会的变体。三种变体脱颖而出，各学科之间各不相同：州际模式（在商业和政治学中很普遍），区域模式（在政治学和法学中）和全球模式（在发展研究和自然科学中）。对这些数据的一部分进行的回归模型表明，国际化课程在商学院中的可能性更大，在设有国际办事处的大学，拥有大量社会科学课程的大学以及拥有国际大学协会会员的大学中。我们讨论了这些发现及其与大学环境变化的联系，强调了全球化与高等教育之间的递归关系。