["Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAmid pandemic disruption and intensifying geopolitical tensions, Chinese college graduates are increasingly selecting Singapore as a study destination. This paper examines how and why this shift occurs by conceptualising place not as a container of destination attributes, but as an evaluative and relational construct assembled under conditions of uncertainty. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Chinese postgraduate students and faculty at Singaporean public universities, we develop a five‐dimensional geographical framework comprising physical, cultural, economic, linguistic, and symbolic dimensions to analyse how students bundle, rank, and recalibrate criteria such as safety, proximity, prestige, and future mobility. The findings show that certain dimensions, particularly geopolitical predictability and visa feasibility, function as hard constraints that delimit viable destinations. Within this narrowed field, Singapore is interpreted as simultaneously proximate and globally connected, culturally resonant yet English‐medium, and politically stable without demanding alignment. Its structured neutrality and governance predictability emerge as key mobility resources in students’ risk calculations. By foregrounding students as active geographical interpreters, the study extends place‐based approaches to international student mobility beyond descriptive push–pull models. It demonstrates how ‘good place’ is relationally produced and recalibrated across life trajectories and shifting geopolitical landscapes.\n"]