Student’s Attitude towards Academic Quality of Higher Education Institutes of Indore: A Comparative study
Keywords:
Service quality, Under graduate, Post graduate students, Attitude, Higher educational institutesAbstract
This study compares the undergraduate and post graduate student’s attitude towards the overall academic quality of higher educational institutes of Indore. A random sample of total 119 undergraduate and postgraduate students was considered in the study. The overall academic quality of institutions was evaluated on certain parameters which include academic faculty quality and course curriculum quality. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to compare the student’s attitude towards overall academic quality. It was found that there is significant difference in the undergraduate and post graduate student’s attitude towards overall academic quality. Undergraduate students had more positive attitude with overall academic quality in comparison to post graduate students.
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