TWO Hobart men have faced court just months after being convicted of a cowardly attack on a Singaporean student.

This time is was for a violent attack on a Chinese university student.

Brodie John Cockshutt, 21, and Shawn Anthony Woolley, 20, appeared in the Supreme Court in Hobart yesterday after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery.

Another man, Jarrod Joseph Broadby, 20, also appeared on the same charge.

The trio admitted dragging Zauo Be Cheng along a Sandy Bay street for five metres as they tried to steal her handbag.

The court heard that Cockshutt initially tried to grab the bag after he jumped out of a van but Ms Cheng resisted and dropped to her knees.

Cockshutt then dragged her until the handbag strap broke.

The court then heard that Ms Cheng's friend, also an international student, came to her aid and Broadby and Woolley punched her in the face.

The men will be sentenced next week.

They have claimed the attacks were not racially motivated and only occurred because they were intoxicated.

Sentencing Cockshutt and Woolley in February, Justice Alan Blow made particular mention of the impact attacks on international students had on Australia's international reputation.

Cockshutt and Woolley were involved in an attack on student Poh Leong Kee as he tried to stop them stealing his Nissan Skyline at Sandy Bay.

The pair, along with New Norfolk man Aaron Nicholas Farrell, 19, received suspended jail terms.

The court heard Woolley punched Mr Poh because he refused to give him the keys to his car. He then punched Mr Poh's housemate Ting "Rachael" Xiang when she came to his aid.