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Student satisfaction slips during the pandemic: down 4...

Still, student satisfaction remains at a high overall level of 4.06 out of 5. Student satisfaction with their online classroom experience (3.60) has been not at par with traditional learning, but there are exceptions. Students are generally satisfied with how universities have managed the COVID crisis (4.15).  Eindhove...

Chelsea Samantha
October 19, 2021

Unibuddy and Studyportals join forces to bring student...

The market leader in digital student engagement joins forces with the world’s largest study choice platform to help students looking to study abroad or online. This allows them to interact authentically with their peers to make the most informed decision that they possibly can.  Universities now have the chance to pres...

Isabela Santa Roza Dos Santos
October 7, 2021

Global Student Satisfaction Awards category nominees a...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, 30 September 2021 – We are proud to announce the category nominees for each region of the Global Student Satisfaction Awards.   The Global Student Satisfaction Awards is the only global university recognition programme from the student perspective.    This edition is powered by over 108,000 stud...

Isabela Santa Roza Dos Santos
September 30, 2021

Winners of the Studyportals International Distinction ...

Eindhoven, 25 August 2021  For yet another year, Studyportals hosted the annual International Distinction Awards and awarded the scholarship to the two best candidates! The Awards were created in order to help students finance their studies abroad and lend them a hand in achieving their dreams!    The 2021 scholarship...

Dayana Pingelova
September 30, 2021

Recruitment 4.0: Universities must respond to changes ...

  Institutions need to rapidly respond to the exponential rise of data and use it to better target their recruitment. Students increasingly use data to inform their choices, says Dr David Pilsbury, Deputy Vice Chancellor, International at Coventry University. Whilst at Coventry University, Pilsbury has worked clos...

Veronique van Cruchten
June 21, 2021

Students asked to rate university COVID support and on...

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 26 May 2021 – Studyportals’ bi-annual Global Student Satisfaction Awards (GSSA) has added two new categories devoted to online learning and COVID-19 for 2021. The awards, delivered in collaboration with Times Higher Education and The PIE, are informed solely by student experience and f...

Veronique van Cruchten
May 26, 2021

Studyportals joins the Global Education Coalition laun...

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 18 March 2021 – Studyportals joins the Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO, pledging to build a future where no-one will be missing out on an education opportunity due to a lack of information. The Global Education Coalition is a platform designed to protect the right to educ...

Olivia Rusu
March 17, 2021

Studyportals announces new Chief Operating Officer...

Eindhoven, 4th of November 2020 – Studyportals, the global study choice platform, is excited to announce that Peter Barnes joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in November 2020, forming a strong addition in the company’s strategic growth. Peter is a CIMA qualified Accountant with 20 years of experience i...

Olivia Rusu
November 5, 2020

STUDYPORTALS AND TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNER TO DEL...

      Eindhoven – London, 10 September 2020 – Times Higher Education (THE), the trusted global data partner for higher education, and Studyportals, the biggest education choice platform in the world, have today announced a partnership to help students looking to study abroad easily research a...

Olivia Rusu
September 10, 2020

Studyportals Announces Winners of International Distin...

Eindhoven, 25 August 2020 – Studyportals awarded its first-ever self-funded scholarship to five aspiring students. The scholarship, formally named the International Distinction Awards, was set up in order to help students finance their studies abroad. Its goal is in line with the company’s outlook on higher educa...

Luna Erica
August 27, 2020

36% of students consider changing their academic plans...

Eindhoven, 29 May 2020 – Between 20 March and 10 April 2020, Studyportals conducted an online survey amongst 991 prospective international students in order to find out how they are perceiving the impact of COVID-19 in relation to their study plans and intentions to study abroad. To better capture the mood of int...

Olivia Rusu
May 29, 2020

83% of higher education institutions expect a decrease...

Eindhoven, 29 April 2020 – Higher education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of COVID-19 travel and social distancing measures, and many are looking for digital solutions to continue their operations. In order to understand how institutions are reacting to the current challenges brough...

Olivia Rusu
April 30, 2020

Studyportals launches interactive dashboard to monitor...

Eindhoven, 8 April 2020 – Combining real-time student interest data with Johns Hopkins University Data Studyportals, the global study search platform, is pleased to announce that it has launched an interactive dashboard to help with monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international education and stu...

Carmen Neghina
April 8, 2020

Studyportals and XOLAS to partner on data analytics an...

Eindhoven, 25 February 2020 – STUDYPORTALS and XOLAS are starting a collaboration aimed at complementing each other’s strengths in benchmarking for business schools and data analytics for universities. The collaboration will primarily be aimed at business schools, matching institutional strength with real-time internat...

Carmen Neghina
March 6, 2020

Studyportals is awarded European Commission Tender...

  Eindhoven, 8 January 2020 – Studyportals is proud to announce that it has been awarded the tender Advanced Techs Academic Offer analysis (AdTeAc) by the Directorate Growth and Innovation of the Joint Research Centre (JRC Seville) of the European Commission. The three-year contract is part of the PREDICT project...

Carmen Neghina
January 8, 2020

Studyportals Academy 2019: a two-day deep dive i...

#spacademy Eindhoven, October 2019 – Studyportals recently hosted the 3rd edition of the Academy in the beautiful city of The Hague, The Netherlands.  Studyportals Academy 2019 offered two full days of presentations, hands-on workshops and speeches from industry leaders on developments in international education and le...

Olivia Rusu
November 5, 2019

Studyportals CEO and co-founder, Edwin van Rest, to jo...

Eindhoven, October 2019 – Edwin van Rest, CEO and co-founder of Studyportals, the global study choice platform, joins the AACSB European Advisory Council, as a business sector member for 2019-2020. AACSB is the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools, and the largest business education network worl...

Olivia Rusu
October 10, 2019

Beyond $300 Billion: Value of international students g...

Eindhoven, September 2019 – Nearly 5.1 million globally mobile tertiary students contributed US$300 Billion to host countries in terms of the estimated economic impact (direct, indirect, and induced) in 2016, according to the new Studyportals report. The report also provides an overview of trends and insights on...

Olivia Rusu
September 4, 2019

Studyportals signs another transatlantic partnership o...

From left to right: Henne Schuwer, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the USA, Melissa Morris-Olson, Provost at Bay Path University, Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, Edwin van Rest, CEO and Co-founder of Studyportals, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, , Hans de Boer, president of VNO/NCW and Bram van Kem...

Olivia Rusu
July 23, 2019

Studyportals announces new CTO to join the company...

Eindhoven, 5th of July 2019 – Studyportals, the global study choice platform, is excited to announce that Emiel Romein joins the company as the new Chief Technology Officer, an important addition to the team, to strengthen the company’s rapid global growth. Emiel Romein is the former Sr. Software Development Mana...

Olivia Rusu
July 8, 2019

Studyportals Launches First Global Student Satisfactio...

Chalmers University of Technology receives the award for Overall Student Satisfaction Eindhoven, 12th of June 2019 – Studyportals, in collaboration with IELTS, Shorelight Education, and US News Global Education, has launched the first-ever Global Student Satisfaction Awards at the NAFSA 2019 conference in Washington DC...

Carmen Neghina
June 12, 2019

Top tech executive Adam Chassin joins Studyportals as ...

Eindhoven, June 2019 – Studyportals, the global study choice platform, proudly announces that Adam Chassin, seasoned tech executive with vast experience in scaling tech companies globally, has joined the company as an investor and senior adviser. Having held key leadership roles at Uber, Amazon, and Yahoo!, Mr. C...

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May 28, 2019

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Spain ranked top in students’ satisfaction...

Spanish universities have been rated top in the world for international students’ satisfaction rates, a survey of 108,000 students worldwide has indicated. According to the 2021 Studyportals Student Satisfaction Report, Austria, Estonia, Hungary and Italy rounded out the top five countries. While student experience rat...

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Unibuddy and Studyportals reveal partnership...

Unibuddy has partnered with Studyportals in a bid to help more students make decisions around studying abroad or online. Unibuddy offers “smarter” student recruitment to higher education institutions by enabling prospects and applicants to virtually connect with student ambassadors and school staff on a direct messagin...

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How can technology recruit harder for you? Student sea...

Edtech continues to dominate the headlines and it is clear that leaders in higher education are seeking an impartial view on navigating this new commercial frontier. Student search platforms hoping to answer this question were represented by Erik Harrell, CEO Keystone Education Group; Patrick Hayes, chief development o...

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UK universities forced to charter flights for Chinese ...

A lack of direct flights from China to the UK has forced universities to charter planes, with the help of higher education company INTO University Partnerships and local travel agents, for the second year running. According to INTO’s operations director in China, Sam Clews, four flights from Hong Kong to London h...

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Anglophone countries look for Nigerian rebound...

Analysts say that popular destinations for Nigerian students including UK, the US, Canada and Australia are facing heightened competition in recent years by non-traditional European destinations including Germany, Norway and Finland among others. “Large English-speaking countries are world-known destinations for studyi...

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The rise of the student experience officer...

The past few years have seen a mushrooming of roles around student experience at universities. Even before the global pandemic brought student wellbeing and mental health into such sharp focus, universities were hiring for relatively new roles that may not have existed a decade ago.  ...

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University rankings must rate wellbeing provision to s...

Isolation and mental health issues are not new concerns for students, but the pandemic has brought them into sharp focus. So why are so many university rankings continuing to only focus on academic excellence? There is an obvious, unassailable link between wellbeing and academic success. The student voice is the only p...

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Who is ‘best in class’ for HE digital transformati...

Thijs van Vugt, director of analytics and consulting at the European-based international study choice platform Studyportals, told University World News that he wasn’t surprised by the findings. “Private providers in less obvious places often have to work harder to try and distinguish themselves and don’t suffer from co...

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Rise of one-stop recruitment shops aided by shift onli...

In 2006, when Edwin van Rest stepped off the plane at Schiphol (Amsterdam) after studying in Osaka, Japan, for two years he expected that his new masters in industrial engineering would be the ticket to his career. Within a year, however, driven by his friends’ reactions – typified by, “Wow, I wish I had known about th...

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All recruitment agent aggregators are not created equa...

An example on the ‘student aggregator’ side is Studyportals which has been running since 2007, has over 3,700 participating universities and has branched out from ‘Mastersportal’ to have eight portal brands. The real question is how universities should approach the new world of ‘agent aggregators’. It is possible to bu...

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Aggregator recruitment start-ups meet the old order...

Longer term stalwarts such as Studyportals, founded in 2008, have responded with ambitions to be seen as ‘the matchmaker’ in higher education. Their April 2021 blog notes that they have historically focused on generic content, but are trying to move to more personally curated content including scholarship opportunities...

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Studyportals joins Global Education Coalition...

Education choice platform Studyportals has joined a UNESCO initiative to protect education access for more than 1.5 billion students and youth who have been affected by school and university closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Global Education Coalition brings together over 160 members from multilateral agencies...

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Other Nations Lure Chinese Students as the U.S. Turns ...

Much is at stake for U.S. institutions, many of which have welcomed the influx of Chinese students, who typically pay full tuition. Chinese students in the U.S. generated $22 billion in total economic impact last year, according to Rahul Choudaha, executive vice president of global engagement and research at Studyporta...

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International Students Bailed Out Colleges in the Last...

International students bailed out public universities during the recession that began in 2008, their tuition helping fill the budgetary hole left by state funding cuts. But as another downturn looms, colleges won’t be able to rely on students from overseas as a safety net....

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Indian students in the US had an economic impact of ov...

Author of the report and executive vice president of StudyPortals Dr. Rahul Choudaha, who is an international higher education expert, spoke to the American Bazaar about the report and how the United States was the biggest beneficiary of the economic impact by Indian students....

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International students generate global economic impact...

International students contributed US$300 billion to the global economy in 2016, estimates a new Studyportals research report. The report, authored by Dr Rahul Choudaha, is entitled Beyond $300 Billion: The Global Impact of International Students.

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In the U.K., a Surge in Chinese Applicants...

‘The trend with China clearly shows that there is a strong appetite and demand among international students to study overseas. If the U.S. is making things more difficult for international students, they are going to find alternative destinations’, said Rahul Choudaha, the executive vice president for resea...

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Maximizing International Student Enrollment and Engage...

International student enrollment is a critical part of the global engagement strategy of many business schools aiming to prepare managerial talent for the world. However, many business schools are facing headwinds from a range of competitive and financial pressures to grow international enrollment....

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Could the flow of international students from India be...

Following China, tightening immigration policies in the U.S. could weaken the second-largest supply of international students to American colleges. U.S. colleges are bracing for a double whammy in international enrollments over the next year, with some Indian students expected to join their Chinese counterparts in turn...

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Studyportals GSSA winners revealed at NAFSA...

Six universities were recognised in the Studyportals Global Student Satisfaction Awards, presented for the first time at NAFSA in a ceremony at the United States Institute of Peace, in Washington DC.

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Prepare for the largest study destination in Asia, goi...

In recent years, China’s international influence has been increasing, and overseas students have begun to turn their attention to China. China has become Asia’s largest destination for study abroad. At many Chinese university, English programs are more diverse. Mr. Vytautas Rimkus, senior consultant of...

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US colleges fret over fall in Chinese students...

Nearly 1.1 million international students are studying at universities and colleges in the United States, contributing $42 billion to the country’s economy. For every seven international students enrolled, three US jobs are created and supported through tuition and other expenses. However, the years of easy growt...

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Immigration Sting Could Hurt U.S. Reputation...

News that the Department of Homeland Security set up a fake university to nab the organizers of a scheme that allowed hundreds of immigrants to remain in or come to the United States illegally could have a chilling effect on international student enrollment in colleges and universities across the country....

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‘It Would Have Been Catastrophic’: Trump Administr...

Educators expressed relief that President Trump had been dissuaded from acting on the visa proposal, but they worried it could be a prelude to future policies that could undermine higher education’s global outreach.

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Global Study Awards winners revealed...

The winners of the latest round of the Global Study Awards have been announced, with students from Somalia and the Netherlands scooping £10,000 to put towards their studies.

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Studyportals and Pearson partner on PTE scores...

The Pie News, 17 September 2018 Studyportals and Pearson announced a new partnership which will benefit all prospective international university students taking the Pearson Test of English Academic to prepare for their university applications. When checking requirements for their university or course of choice on Study...

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The lure of work rights for int’l students – Act 1...

The Pie News, 14 September 2018 Dubbed “the bridge between education and migration” by Centre for Global Higher Education’s Simon Marginson, post-study work rights are being used by some countries as a way to encourage the globally mobile student to put down roots in a new country. Universities New Zealand executive di...

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2018 PIEoneer Award winners revealed at London gala...

The Pie News, 10 September 2018 IES Abroad’s Dr Mary M. Dwyer headlined the winners of the second annual PIEoneer Awards, celebrating global achievement in international education at 8 Northumberland Avenue in the centre of London on 7 September. The event, which attracted 350 attendees from around the world, saw winne...

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Bank of Mum & Dad: Global int’l student funding...

The Pie News, 3 September 2018 While students turn to part-time work to support themselves at university, their parents take on extra work and borrow money to contribute to their education – but the funding gap is still quite substantial, a new survey by global banking giant HSBC has shown. Part-time work during a univ...

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Google launches education search feature in US...

The Pie News, 13 July 2018 Google has entered into the education search space in a more determined way, introducing a new search feature for students looking for a university or a college course in the US. When searching for an institution, information such as cost, admissions or graduation rates will be made available...

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Universities’ marketing is out of date, says web gur...

University World News, 13 June 2018 Universities have been accused of lagging behind in understanding what is happening in marketing for young people in the digital age, according to one of the top visionaries of recent web developments. He urged universities to allow authentic student reviews on their websites. Speaki...

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Short course abroad popularity up 500%...

The Pie News, 11 June 2018 Demand for short courses is growing twice as fast as that for degree courses on study choice platform Studyportals, in a change that may signal a shift to an industry-wide trend towards more flexible and modular pathways for students. Tracking demand across its three portals, Studyportals not...

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International students’ interest in Finnish universi...

Helsinki Times, 31 May 2018 Interest in Finland from students outside the EU has fallen to an “all-time low”, according to the online education platform Studyportals. The trend started to develop following the Finnish government’s decision to introduce tuition fees for non-EU citizens in late 2015. This policy was subs...

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Non-EU students’ interest in Finland at “all-time ...

The Pie News, 24 May 2018 Interest in Finland from prospective non-EU students is at an ‘all-time low’ on the online student choice platform Studyportals since tuition fees were announced in 2016, but analysts say the market will inevitably recover. Tracking interest rates from students from all over the globe (except...

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Global Study Awards winners announced...

The Global Study Awards has presented £10,000 to two international master’s students at its fourth annual ceremony. Jingbang Luan from China and Ozioma Nsaka from Nigeria were selected for contributing to society along with a determination to develop their careers. The money will contribute to the students’ tuition fee...

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France, where the grossly unprepared try for maths deg...

The Economist, 5 May 2018 “LIKE organising a shipwreck in order to find out who can swim,” is how Alain Peyrefitte, then France’s education minister, described his country’s non-selective system of recruiting university students half a century ago. Peyrefitte hoped to transform the system by introducing selective admis...

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Parents a key player in offspring studying abroad...

University World News, 27 April 2018 Parents are a key player in influencing their offspring to study abroad, according to a worldwide survey to get inside the applicant’s mind and understand the study abroad decision-making process. More than 8,500 postgraduate and undergraduate students planning to go abroad for a pr...

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European universities ‘cannibalising’ their own co...

University World News, 26 April 2018 Universities in some European countries are in danger of ‘cannibalising’ their own courses in the rush to introduce programmes taught in English, the head of international marketing at a leading Italian university warned a conference in Amsterdam last week. Michelangelo...

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Europe gaining on UK for study abroad students...

University World News, 17 March 2018 The United Kingdom is slowly losing its competitive edge in attracting international students and it is not just native English-speaking countries like Canada and Australia that are winning a bigger share of the market. Universities in European countries led by Germany and the Nethe...

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Investeerder Alexander Ribbink: ‘Ondernemers moe...

Sprout, 20 February 2018 In deze nieuwe aflevering van De Investeerders: Alexander Ribbink ontwikkelde zich na TomTom tot investeerder. Na Prime Ventures richtte hij Keen Venture Partners op. ‘We zoeken mensen die op een positieve manier eigenwijs zijn.’ Na zijn carrière bij Unilever en Mars wilde Alexander Ribbi...

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Global universities unprepared for sea change ahead...

University World News, 26 January 2018 An overwhelming majority of the participants responding to a live poll during the webinar on the megatrends shaping the future of global higher education agreed that universities face transformative changes in the next decade – but only 12% believe higher education institutions ar...

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Studyportals presents view on the future of internatio...

The Pie News, 25 January 2018 International student mobility will continue to grow but the ‘where and how’ will change, with new destinations and new delivery models taking over, and partnerships between institutions becoming crucial, a new report by StudyPortals argues. The cause for these changes lies in eight ‘megat...

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8 global trends impacting higher ed

Education Dive, 24 January 2018 When it comes to the future of universities and colleges around the world, higher education leaders are all too aware it’s not just domestic trends that can impact the way they operate their institutions. There are also external, global factors that can change the trajectory of the...

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