Reasons for choosing a university

 

The chart shows reasons why first year students from overseas chose a particular university. Good language support comes at bottom by 20 percent. Language of tuition is top of the survey with approximately 95%. At 95 percent of the sample, Language of tuition is the main reason behind students choosing a university. The survey of 1000 first year overseas students was carried out at universities in the UK. Good language support at 20% is the factor more students quoted least when making a choice about which university to attend. Language of tuition is a reason by nearly five times as many students as Good language support, at 95% and 20% respectively. The top three reasons are language of tuition, Quality of teachers. Up-to-date teacher facilities, at 95%, 90% and 90% respectively. According to the graph, the main reason is given as the language of tuition. The various factors can be divided into two groups, namely those related to teaching and non-teaching related. While around 95 percent of the students gave the language of tuition as the main reason for choosing a university, only 30 percent selected modern teaching methods. The cost of accommodation at 80 percent was five percent more than the cost of tuition at around 75 percent. Eighty percent of the sample mentioned the cost of accommodation as a reason for choosing a university as opposed to 75 percent for the cost of tuition. Reasons which influence students are the cost of accommodation and the cost of tuition than location at 80% and 75% respectively. Good language support was stated by only 20 percent of the sample as a reason for choosing a university compared with modern teaching methods at 30 percent.

Words: 291