Exploring the Factors that Influence Chinese Students to Study in Finland
Hu, Lingxi (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020082719908
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020082719908
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Chinese students are the third biggest international student source in Finland. The trend is rising as Finland has shown up more frequently in Chinese people's daily life. Commissioned to the Häme University of Applied Science, a higher education provider in Finland, this study tries to discover the reasons and then propose recommendations based on this research question: Which factors impact Chinese students to choose Finland as a study destination?
In this thesis, the author first introduced the general background of the Chinese overseas study industry and then referred to several classic theories that explain the influence of Push and Pull factors on international mobile students. On the next step, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to gather statistics about how Chinese students make decisions to come to Finland.
As a result of the research, a list and analysis of the push and pull factors in the case of Chinese students and Finland was showed, by combing theoretical know-how and the actual situation. It is stated that the core push factors are a curiosity of foreign culture, domestic high level of competition and so forth; the core pull factors are, for example, education level at host country and tuition fee policy. In the end, the author gave some suggestions and recommendations of feasible actions to the commissioning company to help it better connect with the Chinese market, such as an optimization plan for Chinese social media and offer student support cooperating with the Chinese Embassy.
In this thesis, the author first introduced the general background of the Chinese overseas study industry and then referred to several classic theories that explain the influence of Push and Pull factors on international mobile students. On the next step, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to gather statistics about how Chinese students make decisions to come to Finland.
As a result of the research, a list and analysis of the push and pull factors in the case of Chinese students and Finland was showed, by combing theoretical know-how and the actual situation. It is stated that the core push factors are a curiosity of foreign culture, domestic high level of competition and so forth; the core pull factors are, for example, education level at host country and tuition fee policy. In the end, the author gave some suggestions and recommendations of feasible actions to the commissioning company to help it better connect with the Chinese market, such as an optimization plan for Chinese social media and offer student support cooperating with the Chinese Embassy.