How We Did our First Global Tuition Fee Benchmarking Study at Griffith University

The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
How We Did our First Global Tuition Fee Benchmarking Study at Griffith University, by Nicole Brigg, Director International, Griffith University, QLD 4111, Queensland, Australia (n.brigg@griffith.edu.au) 
Any large company with products or services to sell in a global market would be expected to spend considerable time and energy and to apply much science to the central question of how to price their goods/services. Universities are an interesting exception as pricing seems to be influenced by a range of factors including domestic student tuition fees, local competitor tuition fees, historical evidence of what markets will bear, and reactive swings in response to visa changes, global events and other such factors. In reality, the setting of international tuition fees has not been a scientific process.
Read more in the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3).