Abstract

This research is conducted to investigate the factors affecting National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM) students’ career path. Students and career are two related entities and have been a very common topic in the live development of teenagers. Academic and co-curricular achievement would define the future of individual. Thus the correlation between students and career is very significant as they are reported may affect youth psychologically. The aims of this research are to investigate main factors effecting NDUM students’ career path by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The collected data of 234 final year NDUM students from all faculties were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics software. An online questionnaire via Google Form was conducted to gain the data. The results showed that there were 9 main components influenced NDUM students in choosing their career and “family” was identified as the main factor. PCA method is practically proven to be used in this research to reduce the large number of components to a smaller scale.

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