A STUDY ON THE CAREER PREFERENCES OF UNDERGRADUATE VETERINARY STUDENTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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2017-01
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SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA
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ABSTRACT:
The present study was undertaken with the major objective of ascertaining the
career preferences of undergraduate veterinary students of Andhra Pradesh.
Ex-post-facto research design was followed in the study. List of students
pursuing B.V.Sc &A.H in all the three veterinary colleges under Sri Venkateswara
Veterinary University was obtained and a list of boys & girls was prepared year wise.
From each year 5 boys and 5 girls were selected through simple random sampling.
Thus 50 students were selected from Tirupati, Proddatur and Gannavaram colleges,
respectively making a total of 150 students. The data was collected through a pre-tested
and pre-structured questionnaire. Care was taken to have equal distribution of boys and girls from all the years as well as different social categories. The collected data were analyzed through latest statistical tools. Majority of the respondent’s hailed from nuclear families, urban background and possessed medium sized family.
Majority of the respondents’ fathers were educated up to bachelor degree,
settled in government sector with high income while mothers were illiterate and settled
themselves as homemakers. Majority of the respondents had possessed medium levels of mass media exposure, achievement motivation with a OGPA of 7.00-7.99, shown less inclination to participate in co-curricular and extracurricular activities and were with an opinion that they are aware of available opportunities in animal husbandry sector with medium level of risk preference. Government veterinary doctor was ranked first by the respondents from among the career preferences followed by positions in research centres attached to veterinary colleges and research institutes, scientists in ICAR and other central research
organizations, assistant professors in state veterinary/agriculture universities
(SVUs/SAUs), wild life ecologist or conservation scientist, zoo veterinarian of state
and central level, central government farms, quarantine units, military service [RVC,
ITPB, SSB], research in private and multinational companies, banking sector,
administrative services, doctors in milk plants, private practice-small animal clinics,
abroad farm consultant, meat inspection officers, private practice-large animal clinics,
private sector jobs, consultancy officer in food processing industry, insurance sector,
extension officers in NGOs and political career (MLA/MP). It was also clearly evident
that majority of the respondents preferred government sector careers followed by semi
government and private sector careers respectively. Majority of the respondents had
medium favourable attitude towards careers in veterinary profession followed by high
and low favourable attitudes, respectively.
Correlation analysis revealed that gender, year of study, social category,
education and occupation of parents, parents’ income, rural urban background,
achievement motivation, overall grade point average, participation in co-curricular and
extracurricular activities, mass media exposure, available opportunities and risk
preference had shown positive and significant relationship where as family type and
family size had shown positive and non-significant relationship with career preferences
of undergraduate veterinary students.
Gender, year of study, social category, education and occupation of parents,
parent’s income, rural urban background, achievement motivation, participation in cocurricular
and extracurricular activities, mass media exposure and risk preference had
shown positive and significant relationship where as family type, family size, overall
grade point average and available opportunities had shown positive and non-significant
relationship with attitude of undergraduate veterinary students towards careers in
veterinary profession.
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