This study quantitatively investigates enrolments of international students using data that contains nearly every student in the Netherlands for the years 2016–2019. Using this data, we are able to perform a meso-level analysis where we could investigate the characteristics of higher education institutions (HEIs) and cities in international student mobility. This research contributes to the literature by studying variation between HEIs and by focusing on actual enrolments instead of relying on survey results. Such meso-level studies have thus far been very rare, especially on this scale. Although there are commonalities between types of degrees, we find mixed results for academic and city characteristics, and it appears that academic factors are more important for master students while for bachelor students city characteristics have stronger effects. The effect of having already existing stocks of international students appears to be important for all types of degrees. Aside from differences between bachelor and master students, our findings also suggest that HEIs might directly influence international student flows as this would explain some of our results. Although this study only focuses on the Netherlands, it opens up many avenues for future comparative research on the destination choices of international students and the role of HEIs.

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荷兰国际学生的留学目的地选择：高等教育机构和城市的中观分析

本研究使用包含 2016-2019 年几乎所有荷兰学生的数据对国际学生的入学情况进行了定量调查。利用这些数据，我们能够进行中观分析，调查高等教育机构 (HEI) 和城市在国际学生流动方面的特征。这项研究通过研究高等教育机构之间的差异并关注实际入学情况而不是依赖调查结果，为文献做出了贡献。迄今为止，此类中观水平的研究非常罕见，尤其是在这种规模上。尽管不同类型的学位之间存在共性，但我们发现学术因素和城市特征的结果参差不齐，而且似乎学术因素对于硕士生来说更重要，而对于本科生来说，城市特征的影响更大。现有国际学生的影响似乎对所有类型的学位都很重要。除了学士和硕士生之间的差异之外，我们的研究结果还表明，高等教育机构可能会直接影响国际学生的流动，因为这可以解释我们的一些结果。尽管这项研究仅关注荷兰，但它为未来国际学生目的地选择和高等教育机构的作用的比较研究开辟了许多途径。