Accounting Student,s Motives, Expectations and Preparedness for Higher Education: A Study among University and College Students in Multan

Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Muhammad Atif Ishaq, Ume Habibah, Shehzadi Sidra and Muhammad Ismail
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Muhammad Shahid Iqbal: Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Commerce, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
Muhammad Atif Ishaq: M.Phil. (Commerce), Department of Commerce, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
Ume Habibah: Ph.D. Scholar, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan
Shehzadi Sidra: M.Sc. A&F, M.Ed., SSE, School Education Department, Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Ismail: M.Phil. Scholar, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Research Journal of Education, 2017, vol. 3, issue 12, 173-179

Abstract: The students getting entered in colleges and universities for their higher education have some sort of motives and expectations towards their degree programs. They also have some degree of preparedness towards their educational institute and mainly towards their major subjects. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences in motivation, expectations and preparedness towards the higher education among first-year students on gender basis having accounting as a major subject. Data have been collected from the educational institutions of Multan. It is found that students either male or female, have same level of motives, expectations and preparedness towards higher education. The results of this study revealed no significance differences on the basis of gender among the first year students of college and university.

Keywords: Motives; Expectations; Preparedness; Accounting students; Multan; Pakistan. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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