Students - Graduate / Postgraduate

by Baerbel Eckelmann

This category draws together statistics pertaining to the graduate / postgraduate student body.

Graduate / Postgraduate Students

Students pursuing a higher-level degree (Master and Doctorate), including both taught and research postgraduates (e.g. PhD students)

Graduate and postgraduate are synonyms to embrace all students pursuing Masters or Doctoral programs. The term graduate is more broadly used in US institutions and postgraduate in British and European institutions.

Graduate / Postgraduate International Students

Number of graduate / postgraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship.

For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states.

In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.

In case of dual citizenship, the ‘deciding’ criteria should be ‘citizenship obtained through birth’, basically first passport obtained.

Please exclude all exchange students.

As for language students, if they take up a particular language course that is outlined as ‘graduate/postgraduate degree program’, they should be included under ‘international graduate/postgraduate students’.

Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under ‘Total International Students’.