- Title
- Factors influencing international students' choice of enrolling at higher education institutions via the internet
- Creator
- Yang, Ning
- Subject
- Internet marketing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Education, Higher -- Marketing
- Subject
- Internet in higher education -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:9338
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1084
- Identifier
- Internet marketing -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Education, Higher -- Marketing
- Identifier
- Internet in higher education -- South Africa
- Description
- As the competition increase in the Higher Education industry, marketing departments of Higher Education Institutions view students as consumers and market their institutions. At the mean time, universities around the world encourage their international offices to increase the foreign student enrollments. This research investigates the factors influencing international students’ choice of enrolling at Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) via the internet: international students’ Internet use to facilitate information search and decision making. This survey of international students from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) explored the Internet’s role in marketing international education. Based on this exploratory research, NMMU educational institutions gain insights of online customer service for successfully recruiting students. The results show that prospective overseas students do indeed use the internet. Overall evaluation of the factors influencing the use of the internet for enrolling at HEIs was determined by four factors: namely, perceived usefulness, consumer involvement, perceived ease of use and opinion leadership.
- Format
- xi, 115 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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