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Gill, Tim; Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Zanini, Nadir – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Recently, there has been an increase in the Higher Education (HE) options (in terms of both courses and institutions) available to students in the UK. Given that the choice of institution and field of study are crucial for students' future careers, we investigated how attributes of the institutions and courses determine students' choices, and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, STEM Education, Higher Education
Mothkovich, Troy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Most low-income, high-achieving students in the United States neither attend nor apply to selective universities despite research that shows that they are just as likely as their high-income peers to succeed if they do apply to those schools. Despite the fact that many universities have begun offering substantial financial aid packages that would…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Income, Student Financial Aid, Selective Admission
King, Madeleine; Courtier, Maxine; Shaw, Chet; Anderson, Cynthia; Widdowson, John – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of the research was to discover the views of three groups of International students who were undertaking their Higher Education (HE) in a publicly-funded college, rather than a university setting. A comparative survey was undertaken by International students attending an American Community College, an Australian Technical and Further…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Experience, Student Recruitment
Gore, Oliver Tafadzwa – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Although engagement of the low-income students increased since the introduction of inclusive policies in the post-apartheid higher education in South Africa, inequality of access, participation and achievement still persists. While focus has been on increasing enrolment and addressing students' concerns in universities, little attention has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Student Attitudes
Influential Factors in the College Decision-Making Process for Chinese Students Studying in the U.S.
Rafi, Madeline A. – Journal of International Students, 2018
For more than 1,043,839 international students, the United States is the destination of choice to pursue higher education. Although Chinese students account for almost one in three international students in the U.S., there are many unknowns about the influential factors behind their college decision. This qualitative study explores the…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Asians, College Choice
Binder, Amy J.; Abel, Andrea R. – Sociology of Education, 2019
The study of elites is enjoying a revival at a time of increasing economic inequality. Sociologists of education have been leaders in this area, researching how affluent families position their children to compete favorably in a highly stratified higher education system. However, scholars have done less research on how students do symbolic work of…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Students, Social Status
Yousaf, Salman; Fan, Xiucheng; Laber, Fahad – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this research is to understand how nation branding initiatives complement education diplomacy for a country such as China and to investigate how country distance shapes perceptions of China across a large international student contingency in China. We use Ghemawat's [(2001). Distance still matters. "Harvard Business…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Student Recruitment
Jones, Dan R. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
The presence of honor societies and programs on a university campus is an important component of its reputation for excellence. While we may quibble with the methodologies employed by various rankings, reputation is one of the key drivers of choice when students and their families are making that all-important decision about which university to…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Universities, Admission Criteria, Academic Standards
Yoon, Hyungjoo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
One advantage of online learning settings relative to conventional classrooms is their anytime, anywhere accessibility. While online education programs provide students with flexible learning opportunities free from the restrictions of geographic location, a consistently growing number of students who prefer to learn exclusively online still…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Proximity, School Location, Distance Education
Lo, Patrick; So, Stuart; Liu, Qianxiu; Allard, Bradley; Chiu, Dickson – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Recently, the globalized economy and the rapid growth of developing countries have driven a large number of students to study abroad in different developed countries. To compare the factors affecting their choices, this qualitative study collected data from a series of in-depth one-on-one interviews with twelve Mainland Chinese students who were…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Study Abroad, Library Education, Foreign Countries
Mahajan, P. T.; Golahit, S. B. – Online Submission, 2017
Despite of increasing pressure related to enrollment in Technical Education, some Institutes of Technical Education, successfully have taken on a corporate mentality to attract and retain high-quality students through their e-Promotion. Successful branding and marketing strategies have become most important for the Institutes of Technical…
Descriptors: Internet, Reputation, Marketing, Program Effectiveness
McGrath, Susan; Rogers, Lynne – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
Less-advantaged students are under-represented at prestigious universities, but can we infer that they actively avoid them? This research measured university applicants' knowledge of 115 UK universities. Using card-sort tasks within an interview format, 56 Year 13 students from different types of 16-19 education described how they chose five…
Descriptors: College Choice, Decision Making, Reputation, Selective Admission
Zhu, Lei; Reeves, Peter – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to surface themes which may influence Chinese students' decision making in relation to postgraduate study in international universities. Design/methodology/approach The study utilises a semi-structured qualitative interview methodology (n=15). Findings: The main findings are discussed according to the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad
Matthews, Darren; Radloff, Ali; Doyle, Jo; Clarke, Leyna – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2019
The 2018 International Graduates Outcomes Survey (IGOS) provides an insight into international graduates from Australian universities post-study employment, work readiness, and reflections on course experiences, study motivation and overall satisfaction. Over 10,000 international students who graduated from an Australian university in the last…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship
Cebolla-Boado, Héctor; Hu, Yang; Soysal, Yasemin Nuhog¯lu – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This research contributes to the booming literature on the mobility of international students in higher education. We analyse university-level factors that affect the sorting of Chinese international students across British universities. We produced a unique data-set merging university-level data from the 2014 UK Higher Education Statistics Agency…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, College Students, Universities