Culture and country choice of international students: evidence from Ghana

Motivation factors in student decisions to study Transnational Higher Education in China: a comparative study of two Anglo-Sino programmes

“…Finally, students' choices of TNHE were also influenced by parents and other family members, as they constituted important sources of information. This is consistent with the existing literature, which stressed the Confucian importance of parents in Chinese students' choices of HE (Liu andMorgan 2016, 2017;Mazzarol & Soutar, 2002) and the important role of cultural element in international students' choice of HE (Mahmoud et al, 2020). In addition, students' family background and financial status was therefore an important factor in the choice of TNHE programmes, as tuition fees for TNHE are typically 3-5 times more than those of a local Chinese HE programme, especially for those students from CB, whose tuition fee is twice that of the CL students.…”

Student university choice in Kurdistan-Iraq: what factors matter?

“…The ranking of these different factors importance varies across these studies, but some common factors are found within most of the studies such as, location, university reputation, academic programs offered and their quality, infrastructure and educational facilities, cost and financial aid and future job opportunities as indicated in Al-Fattal (2010) in his study that was conducted in the private Syrian universities. Other international context (non-middle-eastern) studies include (Alfattal, 2017;Chapman, 1981;Dao and Thorpe, 2015;Hemsley-Brown and Oplatka, 2015;Henry, 2012;Hossler, Braxton and Coopersmith, 1989;Hoyt and Brown, 2003;Kallio, 1995;Kusumawati, 2013;Migin et al, 2015;Petruzzellis and Romanazzi, 2010;Obermeit, 2012;Tin, Ismail, Othman and Sulaiman, 2012;Mahmoud et al 2019). Additionally, Weiler (1996) states that there is a significant relationship between students' preferences and institutional characteristics in determining where students ultimately decide to attend.…”

“…Although these studies have contributed a great deal to the literature on university choice, their findings may not be relevant to most of the developing countries. The differences in culture, race, ethnicity, political-legal and economic environments have a strong impact on the student choice of the university (Borus and Carpenter, 1984;Manski and Wise, 1983;Paulsen, 1990;Wiese, van Heerden and Jordaan, 2010;Mahmoud et al 2019) and students from different ethnicities may differ in their view of the relative importance of the different university factors (Arar, Abramovitz, Bar-Yishay and Notzer, 2017;Ivy, 2010), which explains how the previous studies that explore the cultural differences are important in the Kurdistan context. No mentioned studies have been done on what influences student university choice in Kurdistan.…”

The Student Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Transnational Higher Education: A Phenomenographic Study from a British-Qatari Partnership

“…Different studies have discussed the key motivating factors for students choosing to participate in an international programme, and most indicate that students opt for TNHE programmes that provide suitable international employability skills (Fang & Wang, 2014; Liu et al, 2021; Mahmoud et al, 2020; Wilkins et al, 2012; Wu & Myhill, 2017). According to (Mok et al, 2018), students’ main intention for joining TNHE programmes is gaining international experience that will enhance their future job prospects and career development.…”