Coronavirus: Impact on study abroad and international universities

Impact on study abroad

To understand the impact on the higher education sector and its student mobility flows, QS had asked prospective international students whether the coronavirus had impacted their plans to study abroad. The results showed the following figures:

• An encouraging 61% of respondents said the crisis had not affected their plans to study abroad, while 27% said it had.  
• Of those surveyees whose plans had been impacted by a coronavirus, 37% said they now plan to postpone their travel to next year.  
• Additionally, 33% said they now plan to study in a different country. 
• Only a minority of 11% said that they no longer want to study abroad. 

Impact on international universities

Coronavirus has not spared anyone. Even many international universities had to close down for a few days or maybe months. Many universities have suspended their classes for the spring quarter. As per the survey of QS world university ranking on the higher education institutions, respondents stated that their institution had to carry out several measures due to the coronavirus such as:

• They are delaying the start dates for some of their courses until the following semester (19%)
• They are switching some of their scheduled courses online (50%)
• New application deadlines have been declared for their next intake (17%)
• They have postponed some of their 2020 offers to 2021 (13%)
• They are changing offer acceptance deadlines for their next intake (16%)
• As centres are closed for English language exams they are planning to conduct their own English language tests (8%)

Submitted April 07, 2020 at 12:09AM by Jeduka https://ift.tt/34rZ1zH