Occupational Aspirations of the students studying Home Science in Agricultural University

Abstract

The study was conducted at College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad under the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. The ex-post facto research design was adopted in order to study the occupational aspirations of students. There are totally 411 students enrolled in undergraduate, post - graduate and PhD programme during the academic year 2014-15. Out of 411 students, the data were collected from 407 students as the remaining four students viz., two students from U.G. one from PG and one from PhD were out of the headquarter for one or the other reason, with the help of well structured questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the undergraduate students preferred for administrative job in government whereas post - graduate students wanted to secure job in ICAR. Regarding the occupational aspiration preferences of PhD students, it was found that majority of them wanted to be an agricultural university scientist.