Accommodation of international students at Swinburne University

In this section, we will analyse our survey about accommodation of international students. Firstly, we collected general information about the respondents in terms of ages, hometowns counters, gender and languages. The results show that the majority of the participants are male. Furthermore, Half of our participants are between 18 – 21 years old. In addition, the respondents’ hometown country chart shows there were many students come from different country. The type of accommodation that the EAP4 students live in We found that more than half of EAP4 students are living in shared accommodation and 20% rent an apartment or a house. We believe that because international students prefer to live with other people to share or learn some experiences from others. It is clear from this pie chart that 1 in 2 students found their accommodation by the internet or social media. This is not surprising because nowaday social media and the internet become more popular and...

Duangpracha, 2012, ‘The Accommodation Challenges of International Students', PhD thesis, RMIT University, Melbourne. Obeng-Odoom, 2012, ‘ Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management ’,  Far away from home: the housing question and international students in Australia , vol. 34, no.2, pp. 201-216.

Introduction Accommodation is one of the important factors for international students therefore we have decided to ask international students in EAP4 at Swinburne University about how they manage the challenges of accommodation. This survey was completed by 10 students, who come from Columbia, Indonesia, Korea, Oman, Peru, Thailand and Vietnam. As a method of survey, we adopt the small one-on-one interview and we asked both of closed ended and opened ended questions. In our talk, we will present some graphs and a summary of our findings. Results and Discussion           First of all, we have found that a majority of the international students in EAP 4 at Swinburne University are living in shared accommodation, whereas only a few students live in homestay or student accommodation. This result is not surprising because according to Duangpracha (2012),it is usual for international students to live with other people.  In additio...

Accommodation of International students at Swinburne University link of the online survey on Outlook https://goo.gl/H2ztj2 1- What is your gender? - Male - Female - Prefer not to say 2- How old are you? - Under 18 - 18 – 21 - 22 -25 - 26 – 30 - Over 30 3- What is your nationality? 4- What type of accommodation do you stay in? - Homestay - Share accommodation - Rent an apartment/a house - Student accommodation - Other 5- How did you find your accommodation? - Internet / social media - Family - Friends - University’s website / University’s advisory - Other 6- Why did choose this accommodation? - To live with friends / family - To pay lower rent - To live closer to the university - To live away from the city - To find a better living environment - Privacy - Other 7- Do you have any problems in your current accommodation? What are they? 8- How satisfied are you with your current accommodation? Not satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 Extremely satisfied             ...

The topic of our survey is about accommodation of international students, particularly for EAP4 Students at Swinburne University. As we know in recent years, the number of international students has grown in many countries, including in Australia. We believe accommodation is the most important thing that affects many international students; as a result we decided to make a survey about accommodation of international students. We would like to know by the survey the demographic of the respondents regarding gender, age, hometown country, nationality. Furthermore, we will ask the student variety questions about their accommodation. Our expectation is understand how individual international students manage the challenges of housing, for example how did they find accommodation and why did they choose this accommodation. In addition we expect the high cost of accommodation rent in Melbourne affect their accommodation type, like they have to share accommodation. Moreover to live with...