International students choosing where to study are most likely to be swayed by a university’s league table position or its ranking in a particular subject, a new survey suggests.
According to the survey of more than 14,000 international students in the UK and Australia:
---77 per cent of respondents listed both university rankings and subject rankings as ‘very important’ when deciding where to study.
---“Student satisfaction” was mentioned by 74 per cent of students as very important,
---while use of technology and tuition fees were cited by 71 per cent as very important.
---Sixty-five per cent mentioned a university’s links with employers and its quality of facilities,
---while 57 per cent are concerned with the number of teaching hours per week and
Dear Azzam, I do not believe in ranking the universities. There are many parameters that can not be measured. What does this ranking mean anyway. If a university has low ranking, does it mean that the quality of the teachers that work there are not good? Or are not good enough in teaching and transferring knowledge? However, the teachers have obtained PhDs. It is very sensitive to speak about high and low ranking? Who do these rankings, How the quality of the teachers is measured, are they taken into account only the number of research paper, who can decide and say that the paper are not with good quality if they are already published in international journals.... So may questions...