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Graduate Management Admission Council, 2023
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Decision Making
Ardi, Zadrian; Eseadi, Chiedu; Guspriadi, Yan – Online Submission, 2022
The training programs that polytechnic students undertake focus on practical and real-world application skills for their future careers. In the process, students need career counseling that strengthens their career decision-making. Web-based career counseling has a great deal of potential for increasing students' career decision-making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Career Counseling, Decision Making
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2022
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Decision Making, School Choice
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Akpochafo, Grace Omejevwe – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
This paper examined the factors influencing career choice in Nigeria using the (FIT-choice) scale of Watt and Richardson (2007). The study was guided by three research questions and the suitability of the scale for Nigeria was sought. The study used a survey design using purposive sampling technique to obtain a sample of 225 students from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Student Attitudes, Social Values
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Chukwuedo, Samson Onyeluka; Ementa, Christiana Ngozi – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
To curtail difficulties in higher education relating to students' learning with few or no real-life examples, poor acquisition of practical skills, a lack of confidence concerning their prospective career, and a fear of unemployment, it is imperative to engage students in real-life work environments before graduation. Drawing on the integration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Vocational Education, Technical Education
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Obiunu, Jude J. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
The study investigated the effects of reciprocal peer tutoring in the enhancement of career decision making process among secondary school adolescent students. The interaction of sex with treatment on career decision making process of secondary school adolescent students was also investigated. 120 students from two co-educational secondary schools…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals)
Odebunmi, Akin – 1983
Male and female students in four urban locations of Bendel State of Nigeria were administered a questionnaire on choice of careers. The sample consisted of 640 students, 160 in each location ranging in age from 14 to 17. It was hypothesized that factors influencing career choice were money-yielding prospects, desire to work in state of origin,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Decision Making, Educational Research
Wagner, Alan P.; And Others – 1989
The study examined the influence of financial sources on field of study decisions of non-sponsored and sponsored students from developing countries at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Findings are based on analysis of survey responses of 868 foreign students from five countries (Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Nigeria) studying…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries