We mystery-shopped the world's top 500 universities. The insights we found refer to how the universities meet the communication needs of prospective international students around the world.
16. STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENT:
• Track the funnel: webstats and CRM
• (let unbiased students) Mystery shop yourself – from finding your
university, to application, to acceptance, ideally start study
17. To what extent do you trust the following forms of advertising?
21. SATISFACTION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
24
-35
36
57
60
-100 -50 0 50 100
Bank
Facebook
Apple - iPhone
International Education
Average accross industries: -10%
27. Negative reasons
Academics
- Level (too low)
- Unorganized
programme
- English level of teachers
35%
University services
- Accommodation
- Slow, bureaucratic
processes
21%
Cost
- Living costs
- Lack of financial aid
13%
City & Culture
- City atmosphere, looks
& size
- Unfriendly locals
12%
Positive reasons
City & Culture
- City atmosphere, looks & size
- Friendly & helpful locals
27%
Academics
- Clear but flexible structure
- Quality of teachers
(approachable, helpful)
21%
Social life
- Activities (travel, sports, ...)
- Nightlife
- International atmosphere
14%
Personal & Professional
development
- Discovering new cultures
- Language learning
11%
KEY SATISFACTION INFLUENCERS (GLOBAL)
28.
29.
30. KEY TAKE AWAYS
• Make sure the right students find you, for the right reason
• Inform prospects well, see through student eyes
• Respond within 1 day. Follow up.
• Tracking, measuring, knowing, managing
• Engaging academics – happy and friendly service staff
• Ask your students to share their experience (STeXX)
Mostly talk about research. Sounds boring?
Unique data – Mystery Shopped, International Students across countries.
Handful of simple interventions
Ahead of 80% of the World top 500 unis
For students to come to you
And for students to stay – more important – have a positive experience and will recommend.
Mostly talk about research. Sounds boring?
Less than a handful of simple interventions
Ahead of 80% of the World top 500 unis
For students to come to you
And for students to stay – more important – have a positive experience and will recommend.
Mathematicians in the room
38 countries
524 institutes total – any mathematicians in the room?
445 etp
38 countries
Here graph with the world distribution of researched universities
Lonneke – can you visualize this sheet?
More than a hundred in each discipline.
Who knows this feeling?
Many options! Student feeling is much worse:
- only a few tens of toothpaste and a few hundreds of colours.
- Over 34,000 programmes! Hundreds in each discipline
These options are all nicely lined up and visible. Have you ever considered how students are supposed to find the programme that matches them best.
This is a frustration we are devoting ourselves to solving at studyportals. For those who do not know us yet… Cross border comparison – Result based promotion globally.
Apart from overview and structure – our drive comes from better decisionmaking – frustration above
EMPHASIZE STUDYPORTALS IS NOT ONLY THERE FOR THE TOP 500 – ALL UNIVERSITIES!
BRITISH Council
Better info for international student
Awareness on information needs and study choice.
Better/more diverse recruitment
Here the graph with the ‘research model’
Here the research and the overall results will be explained
Region UK and Ireland
Country Sweden
China and quite surprisingly Australia not doing so well.
Here the research and the overall results will be explained
Uk particularly well on info and usability
There’s a quick win right here!!
Language proficiency
Accreditation
Student Testimonials
Jargon
21 honors degree?
Tuition fee NL?
20 months
81% not mobile ready
US the fasted
Australia
Use the infographics
Use the infographics
Gardner data
Big compliment to the industry
Grafiek obv average (N niet nodig) NPS mag in text
Quiz them here.
What is NOT mentioned
To sum ip
Make sure the right students will find you, choose you for the right reasons.
Respond within 1 day
Follow up
Keep acadmics engaging. Services staff happy and friendly
Ask your students to share their experience