Analysis of Financial Education in university students from a university in Southern Sonora

Abstract

Talking about financial education today is more common, credits, exchange rates, solvency, liquidity are terms that people of adulthood often use, this research was carried out with students from a public University in the South of the State de Sonora specifically with the students of Industrial and Systems Engineering, an instrument was applied to them that is composed of 52 items that include 36 multiple choice questions, 8 about their opinions and decisions and 8 questions about sociodemographic data, it was applied to a sample of 170 subjects. The results with the greatest impact, it was found that the level of financial education is low, that the youngest subjects and those who have never worked have a lower level than those who have been part of the population economically for more years active, women denoted a lower level of financial literacy and the category with the lowest score was the one that has to do with investments