The International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES) ||Volume||2 ||Issue|| 7 ||Pages|| 53-59||2013|| ISSN(e): 2319 – 1813 ISSN(p): 2319 – 1805
Job Preference of Private Universities Students in Bangladesh (A Case Study of Some Selected Private Universities) 1
Muhammad Alamgir Islam, 2 Md. Shahidul Islam
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology Dhaka- 1216, Bangladesh. 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology Dhaka- 1216, Bangladesh. -------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------This paper attempts to investigate the job preference of private universities in Bangladesh. A total number of 407 students, irrespective of gender in 45 private universities located in Dhaka city have been interviewed. The major departments that have been chosen by the students for specialization are BBA, CSE, EEE, Textile, Economics and Social Science. Majority of the respondents’ preferred field for future career development are banks and business. Gender of the respondents, department of the respondents, family status of the respondents, education qualification of father and region of the respondents the major motivations for the student’s career preference. The female respondent would choose others job (Banking, Business, Private Service, Teaching) as occupation likely .108 times more than the male respondent. In this study we use chi square test and logistic regression model for our analysis. The findings of this study may be helpful to the students to build up themselves according to the likelihood of professions to be chosen on the basis of their socio-economic and academic background.
KEYWORDS: Job preference, Private Universities, Bangladesh, Chi Square Test, Logistic regression. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Publication: 20.July 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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INTRODUCTION
Students approach higher education with varying aspirations, bringing a wide range of prior skills, knowledge, abilities and ambitions from secondary and further education. They arrive at the threshold of higher education by different routes and embark on very different career trajectories within higher education. A Well-educated, well-trained population could propel a nation towards rapid economic growth. Most of the public universities and private universities provide education based on models and materials developed in the west, particularly from the UK and USA. In a study conducted upon the private university students of Bangladesh. The private higher educational institutions in Bangladesh are presently growing at a rapid pace. This growth is happening not only in terms of number but also in terms of their contribution to produce skilled and qualified manpower. These growing numbers of private universities are getting more competitive by performing beyond their traditional teaching and researching. They are now challenged to contribute to society’s economic and social development, which is the third mission of universities (Gibb, 1996) [1, 2, 3, 4] .Establishment of private university in Bangladesh initiated after the institution of the Private University Act 1992. There are 64 such universities that are operational in five out of seven division of the country. Most of the private universities are in Dhaka Division summing up to 45.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of the present study is to find the job preference of private universities in Bangladesh and to identify the major factors influencing the career preference. For this purpose, the focus has been on; [1] To find out the motivating factors that prompts them to accept a job in an organization. [2] To study the gender differences with respect to job preference. [3] To find the probability of choosing different types of occupation under different types of socioeconomic and academic background.
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METHODOLOGY
Methodology is the most important part in any study, particularly, research works like the current research work. The research is based on field level primary data which were collected from different departments of private universities. Survey methods have its advantages over other method and it involves shorter time and it offers similar scope as the case of study method in collecting primary data. The area of 19 private Universities is covered by the survey. All the students of private University in Bangladesh consider as population. Here sampling units are the students of private University. There are many techniques to select data. In this study, we used the technique of stratified random sampling [5]. We have collected information using a stratified random sampling technique, considering each department as a stratum; the numbers of sampling units of strata are selected proportional to the number of students of the departments. Information from a sample of 450 students has been collected through a well designed questionnaire. However, after scrutiny, only 407 questionnaires
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