[M]obility is increasing—but at a decreasing rate—in the share of higher education institutions in the ARWU top 500. We also see...that countries whose programs all have English as the language of instruction attract relatively more international students. It also seems...that countries where fees for international students are higher than those applying to domestic students have more international students. It appears...that we cannot identify any distinct relationship between higher education mobility and the MIPEX ranking...
We find that among these policies it is mainly the quality of higher education as well as the availability of programs with English as the language of instruction that drive inflows of international students. We argue that in the short run policies should increase the number of programs with English as the language of instruction as well as increasing marketing and the transparency of measurement and evaluation of the
quality of higher education institutions, whereas the long-run objective needs to be increasing the overall quality of higher education system....Read more
