Effect Of Branding Strategies On Post Graduate Students’ Choice Of Universities In Nakuru County, Kenya

Branding in universities are alternatives to bring differentiation in order to attract the attention of stakeholders. The problem addressed by this study was to examine how branding strategies such as internal branding strategies, external branding strategies and service mix branding strategies influenced postgraduate students’ choice of Universities in Nakuru County, Kenya. The study employed explanatory research design, the population of the study comprised of 3,742 universities postgraduate students, of which 212 were randomly sampled. The universities were inclusive of the campuses which were both public and private. A pilot study was used to pretest the questionnaire from the respondents. Cronbach’s alpha was used to test the reliability of data collection instrument. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as; frequencies, percentages, and Chi-square while inferential statistics methods included Pearson correlation and multiple regressions analysis were used to test the relationship between variables. The study findings indicate that there exists a statistically significant positive relationship between internal branding strategies employed by universities and postgraduate student choice of universities (β = 0.401, p0.05).The results further indicated that there exists a statistically significant positive relationship between service mix branding strategies employed by universities and postgraduate student choice of universities (β = 0.347, p

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APA

LANGAT, L (2021). Effect Of Branding Strategies On Post Graduate Students’ Choice Of Universities In Nakuru County, Kenya. Afribary. Retrieved from https://tracking.afribary.com/works/effect-of-branding-strategies-on-post-graduate-students-choice-of-universities-in-nakuru-county-kenya-1

MLA 8th

LANGAT, LYDIA "Effect Of Branding Strategies On Post Graduate Students’ Choice Of Universities In Nakuru County, Kenya" Afribary. Afribary, 18 May. 2021, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/effect-of-branding-strategies-on-post-graduate-students-choice-of-universities-in-nakuru-county-kenya-1. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

MLA7

LANGAT, LYDIA . "Effect Of Branding Strategies On Post Graduate Students’ Choice Of Universities In Nakuru County, Kenya". Afribary, Afribary, 18 May. 2021. Web. 15 Nov. 2024. < https://tracking.afribary.com/works/effect-of-branding-strategies-on-post-graduate-students-choice-of-universities-in-nakuru-county-kenya-1 >.

Chicago

LANGAT, LYDIA . "Effect Of Branding Strategies On Post Graduate Students’ Choice Of Universities In Nakuru County, Kenya" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 15, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/effect-of-branding-strategies-on-post-graduate-students-choice-of-universities-in-nakuru-county-kenya-1

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LYDIA CHEPKOECH LANGAT Field: Business Administration Type: Thesis 228 PAGES (50597 WORDS) (pdf)