Abstract

Selection in Hyderabad, Pakistan.
 Method/Design: There are three independent variables selected, which are Financial Variable, Institutional Awareness and Institutional characteristics and the selected dependent variable is University selection. A 5 Likert scale adopted questionnaire was used as the instrument for the research. The data was gathered from a sample of 130 students and was analyzed by applying reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha) and Multiple regression in SPSS version 20.
 Findings: It was concluded from the findings of the research that Financial Variable and Institutional characteristics have a positive and significant impact on university selection. Whereas, Institutional Awareness was found to have negative and insignificant impact on university selection.
 Practical Implications: It is recommended that universities should consider these factors in order to increase the enrollment in their university. This will also improve the name and reputation of the university. Students should also consider these factors in order to select a proper university.

Highlights

  • College selection plays a very important role in helping students in determining future career plans

  • This study found that institutional characteristics are significantly important for foreign students’ choice of HEI in Malaysia

  • It can be noticed that our studied variables such as university selection, Financial, Institutional Awareness and Institutional characteristics Cronbach’s alpha value revealed 68.5%, 70.5%, 60% and 75.3% respectively

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Summary

Introduction

College selection plays a very important role in helping students in determining future career plans. All over the world the higher education system’s governance has under gone multiple changes in recent years. These efforts have been taken, there is still requirement that the universities should increase the level of education that they are offering and improve the efficiency of education expenditures. The motivation for students in making their decision for university selection have gone through number of changes and the role of creating awareness for student enrollment has become highly significant (Ryan et al 2014). Several researchers have summed up that usually parents are involved in guiding and providing financial support but student are the ones that make the final call regarding the choice of Institution. The choice process most likely involves interaction between students, parents, advisors, teachers, peers, relatives and personnel from institutions. (Ryan et al 2014)

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