Study Loan Defaults Among Tertiary Graduates

Nor Balkish Zakaria, Muhammad Rasyid, Norazida Mohamed, Dalila Daud and Aida Maria Ismail

International Journal of Financial Research, 2020, vol. 11, issue 3, 125-130

Abstract: Educational Loan is an alternative of financial aids that is provided by the study funding agencies of Malaysia to reduce the economic burden of students in order to finance their studies at tertiary education level. Despite the increasing number of students who obtaining these educational loans, the issue of default in loan repayment among borrowers merely needs research attention. Thus this study aims to investigate the factors of study loan default among Malaysia tertiary graduates. Among the factors examined are family income, employment status and loan amount while respondents¡¯ age, gender, marital status and education level are controlled. Questionnaires were distributed to 430 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor, Malaysia graduated respondents via online and 209 were returned The result of this study revealed that the employment status, loan amount and education level are significant to study loan default among Malaysian tertiary graduates. The results could serve some highlights to any study financing agencies to further understand their borrower intuitions in paying back loans they owed.

Keywords: study loan; loan default; tertiary graduates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.5430/ijfr.v11n3p125

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