Level of Occupational Aspiration and Preference for Placement of undergraduate Students of Agriculture

Abstract

The present study was undertaken at B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand. A total 141 under graduate students randomly selected from this college. Data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule and the statistical tools used for the data analysis. majority of the respondents (39.72 per cent) had medium level of occupational aspiration followed by 31.91 per cent of the respondents, who were having high level of occupational aspiration and a 28.37 per cent of respondents were having low level of occupational aspiration. It could be concluded that majority of the students had medium to high level of occupational aspiration. Job security, attractive salary, power, attached better promotional chances, lack of risk and good status among the society were the factors, which was responsible to attract maximum number of the respondents towards Government job, but in the present context getting into a Government job is a difficult task due to the high competition. The findings led to conclude that the great majority of the respondents had medium to high level of occupational aspiration.