Abstract
There are concerns over the growing need of more engineers to work for the market. However, graduation rate in this field has decreased over the years. There is an urge to understand why some engineering students can achieve success while others not. Extrinsic motivation is seen as an important motivational factor that could influence students’ decision to complete or quit their studies in engineering courses. The current study explores extrinsic motivation of engineering students using a qualitative approach. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, where 24 final year engineering undergraduates from the Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN) universities were selected using referral and chain referral techniques of sampling. Data were analysed using a thematic coding approach and Atlas.Ti software was used to assist the coding process. The findings found that the successful students were mostly influenced by three main extrinsic factors namely people, program, and incentives.
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