The Attitude of Graduation Students towards the Engineering Education: Mediating Role of Financial Condition

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the attitudes of university students of Thailand towards engineering education and the mediating role of financial condition. The attitude of the graduation students consists upon their personal interest, parent’s intensions and job opportunities available in the market and this study take all these factors as predictor and financial condition as a mediator of the study. The students of graduation who selected the engineering education were the respondent of the study. Data were collected by personal visit to the public sector universities of Bangkok, Thailand. This study was used the PLS-SEM for the analysis of the data. The results showed that positive association among the attitudes of the student such as personal interest, parent’s intentions and job opportunities with engineering education. The results also highlighted that financial condition of the student mediates the relationship among all the predictors (personal interest, parent’s intentions and job opportunities) and dependent variable (engineering education) of the study. This study suggested to the policymakers that they should focus on the attitudes of the students in selecting the engineering education and also provides them financial assistant that should enhance the interest of the students towards engineering education.