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Title
‘The best education in the world’: reality, repetition or cliché? International students' reasons for choosing an English university
Published in
Studies in Higher Education, August 2011
DOI 10.1080/03075079.2011.562286
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 4%
Turkey 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 147 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 17%
Student > Master 25 16%
Lecturer 19 12%
Researcher 9 6%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 7 4%
Other 25 16%
Unknown 45 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 34 22%
Social Sciences 32 21%
Arts and Humanities 9 6%
Linguistics 8 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 54 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2012.
All research outputs
#23,034,572
of 32,396,123 outputs
Outputs from Studies in Higher Education
#1,274
of 1,657 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112,453
of 146,069 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Studies in Higher Education
#14
of 17 outputs
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