Survey highlights student views on returning to study abroad

A newly released survey report gathers responses from nearly 15,000 prospective and current international students to explore students’ perspective of returning to study abroad this year. Responses for Studying abroad again: How do current and prospective international students feel about the return of studying overseas? were collected between January and June 2021 from markets around the world.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the responding students expressed a strong preference for in-person teaching (61%), with only 17% indicating they preferred online study (another 23% did not express a preference). Of those who had already begun or resumed their studies this year, however, more than half (55%) said that their universities had been either “extremely effective” or “very effective” in their delivery of online programmes.
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