A study on form 6 students aspiration to pursue study in University case study : SMK Badin Tuaran / Fadly Alippin

Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Badin is the most popular school in Tuaran. Located quite far from urban development, this school has known with their quality teachers, well discipline students, education achievement, co-curriculums, and sports. Every year, this school has the higher demand for new entry of the Form 1 students. This study is focused on the Form 6 students with the total number respondents is 137 which means all the upper Form 6 students are named as the respondents. The main objectives of this study were to determine the students' perceptions of the importance to pursue study in university, and to identify the most influential and deterrent factors that influence their decision whether to pursue study in university or not. This study revealed that, 97% of the students desired to pursue their study in university. The main factor that motivated these students to pursue their study in university is because they want to get a higher qualification to get a better job in future. The main deterrent factors that make these students decided not to pursue study in university are the personal problems, do not want to increase their family burden and have desire to work first. The final result in this study indicates that there was no significant difference between the decision to pursue studies and demography (gender, field of study, parents' educational level.). However, it is found that, there is a significant difference between the parents income level with the decision of the students to pursue study in university. Besides that, this study also identified that there is a significant differences between the students' perception on the importance of pursuing study in university with their parents' level of education and income. Most of these students decided to pursue their study in IPTA rather than IPTS and overseas.