Educational aspirations of the home science students of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka

The present study was conducted at College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka on 407 students. The findings of the study revealed that most of the respondents wanted to do job after completion of their education. Majority of the undergraduate students (59.10%) wanted to do masters in home science (MHSc), 64.70 per cent doing MHSc wanted to do PhD and among PhD students 66.66 per cent wanted to do postgraduate diploma. In terms of preference for university for further studies most of the students wanted to do at any other university in India followed by University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad and a very high percentage of the respondents wanted to appear for competitive examinations. It was also observed that with reference to preference of the undergraduate students for MHSc, majority of them (41.38%) gave their first preference for food science and nutrition, second preference for human development and family studies (33.34%) and third preference for extension and communication management (34.48%). They had medium level followed by high level of educational aspiration and there was a significant difference between the levels of educational aspiration among all three groups of students. Age of the students was positively correlated with their educational aspiration.