Why Study Abroad? Sorting of Chinese Students across British Universities

Autor/inn/en	Cebolla-Boado, Héctor; Hu, Yang; Soysal, Yasemin Nuhog¯lu
Titel	Why Study Abroad? Sorting of Chinese Students across British Universities
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (2018) 3, S.365-380 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cebolla-Boado, Héctor) ORCID (Hu, Yang) ORCID (Soysal, Yasemin Nuhog¯lu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2017.1349649
Schlagwörter	Study Abroad; Foreign Students; College Students; Universities; Focus Groups; College Choice; Costs; Marketing; Foreign Countries; Student Mobility; Decision Making; Reputation; Institutional Characteristics; Student Surveys; Student Attitudes; Regression (Statistics); Statistical Analysis; United Kingdom; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Collegestudent; University; Universität; Studienortwahl; Cost; Kosten; Ausland; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Schülerbefragung; Schülerverhalten; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Großbritannien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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