{"id":12745,"date":"2019-09-24T04:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/blog\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:19:05","slug":"what-international-students-think-about-their-australian-study-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/what-international-students-think-about-their-australian-study-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"What international students think about their Australian study experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recently released Student Experience Survey, which provides comprehensive overview of students experience at Australian universities and other education providers, is exclusively for Onshore students , however divides it\u2019s result per country of origin and tell us more about how different groups are evaluating their university experience.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it give an overall picture of how positively international students are rating their studies in the land Down Under, it also highlights strengths and weaknesses in the different areas of post-school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>See below the highlight on the latest issue of this survey:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undergraduate international students<\/strong><br \/>\nOnly 76% of international students rated their undergraduate experience positively. However this does represent the majority it\u2019s important to say that international students were less likely to rate their overall experience positively \u2013 in contrast, 80% of their domestic counterparts evaluated their time at university favourably. For the most part, international students rated other aspects of their undergraduate educational experience positively:<br \/>\n\u2605 80% assessed Skills Development positively<br \/>\n\u2605 58% rated Learner Engagement positively<br \/>\n\u2605 79% evaluated Teaching Quality positively<br \/>\n\u2605 83% valued Learning Resources positively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postgraduate international students<\/strong><br \/>\nPostgraduate results followed a similar pattern to the undergraduate ratings, with international students less likely to rate their Australian educational experience positively. Postgraduate international students ranked their overall experience three percentage points lower than domestic students, while both rated other aspects of their educational experience in a relatively similar fashion. In some categories, postgraduate international students rated their experience more favourably than their undergraduate counterparts.<br \/>\n\u2605 82% rated Skills Development positively<br \/>\n\u2605 59% assessed Learner Engagement positively<br \/>\n\u2605 73% ranked Student Support positively<br \/>\n\u2605 84% evaluated Learning Resources positively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently released Student Experience Survey, which provides comprehensive overview of students experience at Australian universities and other education providers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esos-compliance","category-visa-immigration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What international students think about their Australian study experience? 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