The influence of aspirations on higher education choice: a telecommunication engineering perspective
This paper analyses the influence of external factors that affect the decision-making process in the selection of telecommunications engineering studies. Particularly, we have studied the influence of factors related to the generation of expectations about the studies. A survey was conducted on a sample of 701 male and female telecommunications engineering students. The results show the existence of a direct relationship between the choice of telecommunications studies in non-vocationally oriented students and their expectations of finding a job more easily, getting higher salaries and more prestige. On the other hand, non-vocationally oriented students show similar academic performance to that of vocationally oriented students.
Keywords: Telecommunications; engineering studies
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Business Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, EUITT, Ctra. de Valencia, km. 7 28031, Madrid, Spain 2: ESIC Business and Marketing School, Avda. de Valdenigrales, s/n 28223, Pozuelo de Alarcon—Madrid, Spain
Publication date: 01 August 2006
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