PERCEPTIONS AND NEEDS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

What is it about?

Are universities aware of the international students’ perceptions and needs? We explore in this paper different needs that international students have when visiting new countries, and what particular services they require. Little research exists on this aspect of student mobility. We offer a new approach to it by using LDA, a probabilistic topic model that has been used to analyze 59,662 student opinions and to group them into categories.

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Why is it important?

Little research exists on this aspect of student mobility and this paper voices the international student experience on needs and support services in higher education institutions.