Institutionalisation of Father's Level of Income on Students Nature of Campus Adaptations

Abstract

Objective: The study aims to empirically test the relationship between types of campus adaptations across student’s father’s income level at engineering undergraduate B. Tech student’s pursuing a four-year study at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT’s) and National Institute of Technology (NIT’s) in India.

Method: The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (Manova) test was run with SPSS vs. 21 to compare the student’s campus adaptations of IIT’s and NIT’s by student’s father’s level of income earned. Multistage random sampling with n = 1420 student’s were selected comprising of income upto 1,000 (n = 06), income limit of 1,001 to 5,000 (n =76), income limit of 5,001 to 10,000 (n =138), income limit of 10,001 to 20,000 (n = 198), income grater than 20,000 (n = 854), no income (n =40) and student’s who dint know their parents income (n = 108).

Result: In Academic adaptation, student’s whose father’s had income of 5,001 to 10,000, greater than 20,000 and who were unaware of their father’s income has positive outcomes while student’s whose father’s income was up to 1,000, 1,001 to 5,000, 10.001 to 20,000 and no income had negative adaptation. In social adaptation, student’s whose father’s income was up to 1,000, 10,001 to 20,000, no income and student’s who were unaware of father’s income had positive social adaptation while student’s whose father’s income was 1,001 to 5,000, 5,001 to 10,000 and greater than 20,000 had negative social outcomes. In physical - psychological adaptation, student’s whose father’s income was up to 1,000, 10,001 to 20,000, and greater than 20,000 had positive outcomes and student’s whose father’s income was from 1,001 to 5,000, 5,001 to 10,000, no income and student’s who were unaware of their father’s level of income had negative physical – psychological adaptation. In institutional adaptation, student’s whose father’s income was up to 1,000, 5,001 to 10,000 had positive outcomes while student’s whose father’s income was from 1,001 to 5,000, 10,001 to 20,000, greater than 20,000, no income as well as student’s who were unaware of their father’s level of income had negative outcomes. Conclusion: Campus adaptations do vary across student’s father’s level of income influencing student’s experiences at university of Indian institute of Technology (IIT’s) and National Institute of Technology’s (NIT’s).

Keywords: higher education, college, socio economic, parents, income and adaptation