How do International Students rate their Learning Experience in Australia?
International student feedback, reviews, and ratings might come in handy when comparing and weighing out your study abroad options. To help out prospective international – and even domestic - students with a complete analytical overview of the quality of post-secondary education in Australia, the Student Experience Survey (SES) publishes annual statistics, which serve as a comprehensive summary of how students feel about their study experience at Australian universities.
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rate their Learning Experience in Australia?
International student feedback, reviews, and ratings might come
in handy when comparing and weighing out your study abroad options. To help out
prospective international – and even domestic - students with a complete analytical
overview of the quality of post-secondary education in Australia, the Student
Experience Survey (SES) publishes annual statistics, which serve as a
comprehensive summary of how students feel about their study experience at
Australian universities. The recently released data of 2020 was also issued by
SES via the Australian Government’s Quality Indicators for Learning and
Teaching (QILT) website. The survey outcomes have been assorted by demographics
that let us know how university experience is rated by different groups.
The 2020 tables of SES categorically indicates the academic experiences
of international students at Australian higher education institutes and other
education providers. The survey results are the clear depiction of the ratio of
international students, who rate their educational experience positively, as
well as the upsides and downsides of instruction in different areas of the
undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. The official SES report is a 78-page
long document that holds too much numerical data, and might be too painful for
the eyes to understand and analyze. So, we have assimilated the evaluations
down to your ease to give you a quick insight into how positively (in
percentage) international students have rated their experience at these levels
of higher study.
International Student Ratings on Undergraduate Level of
Study
According to the tables, less than two-third (63 percent) of the
international students living in Australia, rated their undergraduate study
experience positively. Although rated positively by more than half of the
students, it is observed that overall international student experience ratings
have significantly declined since 2019 ($12%). Also, international student rating was
comparatively less in contrast to the domestic student experience, who gave an
aggregate rating of 80 percent for their undergraduate study experience. However,
in most areas, foreign student do signify a satisfactory performance of institutes
at the undergraduate level:
- 76 percent assessed Skills
Development positively
- 49 percent rated Learner
Engagement positively
- 71 percent evaluated Teaching
Quality positively
- 72 percent valued Learning
Resources positively
International Student Ratings on Postgraduate Level of
Study
The SES report has posed a cumulative rating for postgraduate
student experience, including both the domestic and international student ratings.
Although these results show a similar trend to that of the undergraduate
ratings, Postgraduate students seem to have enjoyed a more positive experience
in most aspects of their studies than undergraduate students:
- 78 percent rated Skills
Development positively
- 42 percent looked at Learner
Engagement positively
- 74 percent assessed Student
Support positively
- 73 percent evaluated Learning
Resources positively.
References
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https://www.qilt.edu.au/docs/default-source/ses/ses-2020/2020-ses-national-report.pdf
