Does university quality drive international student flows?

Reinhilde Veugelers and Linda Van Bouwel

No 7657, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We examine whether the (research) quality of a country?s higher education system drives macro-flows of foreign tertiary students in Europe. We use various measures on the quality of a country?s higher education system in an extended gravity model. We find that quality has a positive and significant effect on the size and direction of flows of students exchanged between 18 European countries.

Keywords: International student mobility; Higher education; University rankings; Quality indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I23 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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