FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN RELATION WITH SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC FACTORS IN DINAJPUR

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to identify the university level academic performance of students in relation to the socio-demographic, economic and other academic environments, as well as to make conclusions for the improvement of academic performances. The study was carried out on the students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur keeping in view of its multi-disciplinary, multi-pattern degree, meritorious enrolled students at the largest technical university of the North West region of the country. The number of sampled students for this study was 226, consisted of 128 male and 98 female students selected from the 434 students of Level-4 Semester-I of the year 2013 among the eight degree offering disciplines of undergraduate students.