As discussed in a couple of earlier posts (here and here), we recently completed a survey of Maritime students who study at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As noted earlier, Maritime migrant students (i.e., those who re-located to study on campus full-time) tended to rank total cost the most important influence on their decision to study at Memorial while Maritime students studying via distance education in their home provinces tended to pick program availability as the most important influence in their choice of university.
We also provided students with a list of factors that students often consider when choosing a university and asked them to rank the importance of the factors on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being 'not important at all' and 5 being 'very important'. In the table below, I provide a summary of responses to this question for the total group surveyed as well as the Migrant student and Distance student sub-groups.
While students gave the overall highest ranking to program availability, there were significant differences in rankings provided by Migrant and Distance Students. Factors relating to finances, including total cost, tuition fees, availability of need-based financial aid, and availability of scholarships, were ranked significantly higher for students in the Migrant group.
Monday, 31 January, 2011
Maritimers at MemorialU: Financial factors rank higher for migrants
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