Students' career choices: An exploratory study on the influence of socio-demographic variables on higher agricultural education in India Ananda K.R.1, Satyapriya2,*, Venu Lenin2, Bishnoi Sitaram3, Bhowmik Arpan4, Venkatesh P.5 1Research Scholar, Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi 2Principal Scientist, Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi 3Scientist, Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi 4Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Assam 5Senior Scientist, Agricultural Economics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi *Corresponding author email id: satya118ext@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 March, 2024. Abstract In India, Different higher education systems including Medicine, Engineering, Management and etc., Agriculture education is also one among them. Every student aspires to develop a strong professional career in the field of Medicine, Engineering, and Agriculture. Building their professional career in a particular field. Typically, one aspires to acquire a job that will help him be stable as well as his family and country in the long term. Career choices will depend on many factors which include socio-demographic variables. The present research aims to explore socio-demographic variables' influence on students' career choices for higher agricultural education. In this study, the target population is students of IARI, university of agricultural sciences, Raichur, and Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda with a sample of 150 for collecting the desired information according to the nature of the population. we use simple random sampling to gather the data. For this study Student career choice index was developed and pretested with experts' opinions which include dimensions are Personal and Impersonal characteristics, Socio-economic factors, Career scope, and Institute image. To measure the socio-demographic variables' influence on the student's career choices, we used hypothesis and regression analysis which was performed on the data which shows that variables like gender, parent's occupation, father's education, mother's education, family income, and peer group consult positively at 5 per cent level of significance were playing important role in influencing of career choices. Top Keywords Students' Career choice, Career scope, Higher agriculture education, Socio-demographic variables. Top |