International Student Barometer
The International Student Barometer (ISB) is:
• An independent and confidential feedback process for education providers, tracking the decision-making, perceptions, expectations and experiences of international students
• A risk management tool, identifying the key drivers of international student satisfaction and establishing the relative importance of each.
• A comparative measure, tracking year on year how expectations and perceptions change - within your institution and against national and global benchmarks.
The ISB has been adopted by over 200 institutions in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, continental Europe and the USA. It is now the largest study of international students in the world with feedback from over 300,000 students since 2005.
Our partners have since adopted the Student Barometer (SB), a parallel study designed specifically for domestic (home) students.
What are the benefits for your institution?
The Barometer provides an objective, independent and confidential feedback loop to:
• Enhance your competitive advantage
• Inform departmental and institutional decision-making
• Adapt student recruitment and marketing to manage expectations
Specific outcomes include:
• Understand and compare students’ expectations and experiences
• Identify key differentiators for marketing – where does your institution outperform the sector?
• Identify priority areas for investment and support
• Deliver key performance indicators for academic departments and support services
• Educate staff - provide enlightened insights into the motivations, attitudes and perceptions of this year’s cohort
• Measure the success of your institution relative to rivals, win support for change and set realistic goals and objectives for improvement
• Track progress year on year
What is covered in the study?
Key areas covered by the International Student Barometer include:
• Decision making process
• Enquiry to acceptance
• Arrival and orientation
• The learning experience
• The living experience
• Support services
• Worth the investment of money?
• Worth the investment of time?
• Recommendation
• Learning style preferences
• Career aspirations and preferences
• Personal values
• Study pressures
For more information
For more information or to register your interest in the next wave of the International Student Barometer, please contact Jenni Parsons (jenni.parsons@i-graduate.org)