Evaluating students' level of financial management: a case study

Financial management is crucial for students as it helps them manage their money effectively, ensuring they can cover essential expenses like tuition, books, and living costs. To ensure future financial stability, it also imparts essential skills such as debt management, investing, and saving. By engaging in sound financial management practices, students can reduce stress, avoid unnecessary debt, and lay the groundwork for long-term financial wellbeing. Thus, this study attempts to identify students' level of financial management. 398 students from one of the public universities in Negeri Sembilan were selected as a sample to answer the online survey. The analysis results show that 78.6% of the students are classified as manageable in managing finances and 21.4% as unmanageable. Hence, it is hoped that students' financial management awareness will increase and they can achieve better stability and security throughout their lives.