Factors Affecting the Course Preference of Freshmen Female Engineering Students

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The researchers conducted a survey in De La Salle Lipa, which is offering Engineering courses. This process was done in order to have a firsthand data about the factors which affect the preference of the female first year college students taking up BS Electronics and Communication Engineering. The proponents of this research paper prepared survey sheets using an English language since this study is for the communication skills. The answers on the survey questions can be supported by the ideas from the published books, and websites which were discovered by the researchers while having their study about the said topic.
The researchers were tasked to have 25 respondents. The stated number of respondents is equally divided according to the number of engineering courses offered in De La Salle Lipa. The graph below (G1) illustrates the factors which affect the course preference of the first year female students in engineering department.

G1

Generally, the factors that affect the course preference of a female engineering college undergraduates are personal characteristics (Admissions Education, n.d.), career influences (Michigan Tech, 2013) and limitations. The results in the first question are very close to each other. Even though the overall tallies are near to each other, the career influence is dominant among the other choices. This result is similar to the researched study; According to James et. al the field of study preferences, course and institutional reputations, course entry scores, easy access to home and institutional characteristics significantly influenced applicant’s choice of institution (1999). It also has the similarities on Foskett et al.’s (2006) findings that students consider more carefully economic fa...

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