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Direct linkSanjay Krishnapratap Pawar; Ruby S. Chanda – Cogent Education, 2024
An evaluation of extant research reveals a significant blind spot around investigating the enrolment decision-making of Indian international students in the STEM fields. This study qualitatively explores the motivations of Indian international students to pursue a STEM Master's program in an industrialised country. To elicit pertinent information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, STEM Education, Student Motivation
Moogan, Y. J. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
This paper analyses the student decision-making model for international postgraduate (PG) students with a concentration on consumer service marketing principles. Using a grounded theory approach and exploratory techniques (focus groups), it investigates qualitatively why the UK is the destination choice, the rationale for the programme of study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Aurini, Janice; Missaghian, Rod; Milian, Roger Pizarro – Sociology of Education, 2020
This article draws from American research on ''concerted cultivation'' to compare the parenting logics of 41 upper-middle-class parents in Toronto, Canada. We consider not only how parents structure their children's after-school time (what parents do) but also how the broader ecology of schooling informs their parenting logics (how they…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Social Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Advantaged
Download full textYakaboski, Tamara; Perez-Velez, Karla; Almutairi, Yousef – Journal of International Students, 2017
The authors in this qualitative study explored how Saudi Arabian students selected a teaching focused research institution by examining Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and U.S. national influences, institutional factors, and personal influencers. Despite the continued rise in Saudi Arabian students studying at U.S. universities, limited published research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Collectivism, Qualitative Research, Institutional Characteristics
Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
Amidst global competition in higher education, colleges and universities adopt strategies that mimic and adapt business practices. Branding is now a widespread practice in higher education; multimodal advertisement is a manifestation of emerging branding strategies for universities. While the visibility of brands in higher education has grown…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Change Strategies, Commercialization, Rhetoric
Li, Jianyao; Liu, Fang; Rojas-Méndez, José I. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
Previous research studies identified country image as an important variable in international students' selection of onshore programs, and it is often perceived that there is little difference between onshore and offshore program selection. Looking at a sample of high school students in China and their selections of offshore programs (from a sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
Altbach, Philip G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
In the era of globalization, accountability, and benchmarking, university rankings have achieved a kind of iconic status. The major ones--the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, or the "Shanghai rankings"), the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds Limited) World University Rankings, and the "Times Higher Education" World…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Educational Environment, Accountability
Wilkins, Stephen; Huisman, Jeroen – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
In many countries and regions around the world international students now weigh up the potential advantages and disadvantages of undertaking their higher education at an international branch campus rather than at a home campus located in a traditional destination such as the United States or United Kingdom. The aim of the research is to identify…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, International Schools
Daniel, Rhonda; Caruthers, Devina – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2016
This white paper, "Understanding Underrepresented Populations in the Business School Pipeline," examines the shifting US racial and ethnic demographics and projected growth among US minority populations and the challenges--and incentives--these developments pose for US business schools to increase the opportunities for minority students…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Business Schools, Business Administration Education, Minority Group Students
