The diagrams below show the results of a survey from Taiwan explaining how students, wanting to study overseas, chose a university from 1998-2008.

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male and female students’ criteria for studying at a university abroad between 1998 and 2008.

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, ranking, tuition and accommodation fees were the principal reasons for both sexes,

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there was an upward and downward trend during the time. Interestingly, prospective students did not put much consideration on the quality of lecturers and the newest teaching methods.

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, there were 97% of boys and 100% of girls decided on a university based on its ranking in 1998, but it declined by 2% and 10% in 2008 respectively.

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to the cost of tuition, as many as 88% of males chose

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criteria in 1998 and it showed a significant increase to 97% in the following ten years. Having the same trend as their counterparts, the females showed a slight increase from 93% to 95% in

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category.

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, in 1998, both genders considered the housing rate with 92% of males and 91% of females.

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, in 2008, the former showed a decrease to 86%,

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the latter rose minimally to 93%.

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, from 1998 to 2008, lecturers’ capability was only chosen by 13% of boys and 5% of girls, but declined to 6% and increased to 7%

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. In terms of the latest teaching methods, there were only below 10% of male and female learners who took it into consideration.