Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities
Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities
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DOI：
10.1080/01425692.2017.1349649
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu
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作者：
Cebolla-Boado, Hector;Hu, Yang;Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu
这项研究为有关高等教育中国际学生流动性的文献的蓬勃发展做出了贡献。我们分析了影响英国大学中国国际学生排序的大学层面因素。我们制作了一个独特的数据集，融合了 2014 年英国高等教育统计局和更高期望调查的大学级数据，并辅以来自六个焦点小组的定性证据以供说明。我们的研究结果首次使用具有全国代表性的证据，证实大学声望是英国大学对中国学生进行分类的最重要驱动因素，同时也是大学提供的更广泛的社会和文化服务的进一步影响。有趣的是，大学的学习成本和营销策略似乎并没有推动中国学生的大学选择。我们的研究结果强调了分散的制度因素的重要性，例如大学排名以及学生自己认为理所当然的地位。
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 and the Higher Expectations Survey, supplemented by qualitative evidence from six focus groups for illustrative purposes. Our results, using nationally representative evidence for the first time, confirmed that university prestige is the most important driver for the sorting of Chinese students across British universities, together with further effects of the broader social and cultural offerings that the universities provide. Interestingly, the cost of study and marketing strategies deployed by universities do not seem to drive the Chinese students' university choices. Our findings underline the importance of diffuse institutional factors such as university rankings and their taken-for-granted status by students themselves.