Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities

This paper mainly aims to identify the impact of online advertising on students’ decision-making and their choice of higher education institutions. Data for this study were collected from 350 students from various Malaysian universities using self-administered questionnaires. The acquired data went...

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Main Authors: Jan, Muhammad Tahir, Ammari, Djihane
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spelling iium-528502017-01-11T04:20:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/52850/ Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities Jan, Muhammad Tahir Ammari, Djihane HF5001 Business. Business Administration This paper mainly aims to identify the impact of online advertising on students’ decision-making and their choice of higher education institutions. Data for this study were collected from 350 students from various Malaysian universities using self-administered questionnaires. The acquired data went through an exhaustive process to ensure that it was ready for analyses in SPSS and AMOS software. Factor analysis was used to extract the significant constructs underlying the data followed by a two-stage structural equation modeling in order to examine the fitness of the proposed model and test the hypotheses. The results revealed that social media and websites positively affect students’ decision- making, which then significantly impact students’ choice of a particular university. This research has invaluable implications for policy-makers, especially in the education industry of Malaysia. It is hoped that the findings of this study can be considered while making marketing plans for an educational institution. Routledge 2016-10-20 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52850/1/Advertising%20online%20by%20educational%20institutions%20and%20students%20reaction%20a%20study%20of%20Malaysian%20Universities%20-%20for%20IREP.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52850/7/52854_Advertising%20online%20by%20educational%20institutions_scopus.pdf Jan, Muhammad Tahir and Ammari, Djihane (2016) Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 26 (2). pp. 168-180. ISSN 0884-1241 E-ISSN 1540-7144 http://srhe.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08841241.2016.1245232?journalCode=wmhe20 10.1080/08841241.2016.1245232
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Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
description This paper mainly aims to identify the impact of online advertising on students’ decision-making and their choice of higher education institutions. Data for this study were collected from 350 students from various Malaysian universities using self-administered questionnaires. The acquired data went through an exhaustive process to ensure that it was ready for analyses in SPSS and AMOS software. Factor analysis was used to extract the significant constructs underlying the data followed by a two-stage structural equation modeling in order to examine the fitness of the proposed model and test the hypotheses. The results revealed that social media and websites positively affect students’ decision- making, which then significantly impact students’ choice of a particular university. This research has invaluable implications for policy-makers, especially in the education industry of Malaysia. It is hoped that the findings of this study can be considered while making marketing plans for an educational institution.
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author Jan, Muhammad Tahir
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title Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
title_short Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
title_full Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
title_fullStr Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
title_full_unstemmed Advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of Malaysian Universities
title_sort advertising online by educational institutions and students’ reaction: a study of malaysian universities
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publishDate 2016
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