The Impact of the University Reputation on Tuition Fees for International Students and on International Student Investment in the Country's Economy

Moskovkin, Vladimir M. and Zhang, He The Impact of the University Reputation on Tuition Fees for International Students and on International Student Investment in the Country's Economy. Informology, 2024, vol. 3, n. 1, pp. 143-188. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Establishing the impact of the university's reputation on tuition fees for international students and international student investment in the country’s economy. Correlation and regression analyses at the university and country level between leading world rankings (QS, THE, ARWU, Webometrics) and the cost of international students studying in them, as well as quantifying the contribution of international student investment to the economies of 16 countries. For 11 countries around the world, each with more than 15 universities, the correlation between the integral indicators of the university rankings in QS, THE, ARWU, and Webometrics rankings and the tuition fees at these universities for bachelor's and master's programs was calculated. The results show that the best correlation was found for the anglophone countries that have a liberal pricing policy for students. Based on statistics from national and international organizations over an eight-year-time interval (2011 – 2018), the share of income that a country receives from foreign students staying in it in relation to foreign direct investment was calculated for 16 countries of the world. This share of income varied, in general, from tenths of a percent to 50%. For identified universities from QS and THE rankings of the countries under consideration their Average Overall (Total) Score was calculated and their correlations with average tuition fees were made. It is concluded that international student recruiting in many countries is a matter of survival of their universities as well as the territories where these universities are located. That is why it is a matter of material welfare of the territories where universities are located.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Academic Ranking of World Universities, University rankings, international students, tuition fees, University reputation, Webometrics
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited: 04 Sep 2024 03:14
Last modified: 04 Sep 2024 03:14
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/45993

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