Factors Influencing of Colleges’ Students to Abroad”: A Survey Study

Abstract

This study aims to unpack the factors of students’ choices of out-migration. The independent variables are push and pull factors and the dependent variable is the socio-economic motive for going abroad. Push factors consist of unemployment, poverty, family conflict, an inferior education system, political disturbance, and poor development activities, and pull factors consist of the desire to study, fashion, earn and learn, be rich, relative invite, and friends' suggestions. The study is carried out with a quantitative research design. The nature of the study is descriptive. For this study, data was collected from primary sources. The researchers obtained data about the sample using answers to structural questionnaires from the bachelor-level students of Dolkaha, Nepal. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for the data analysis using SPSS software version 23. According to respondents from the data analysis, most college students are unsatisfied with Nepal's current political system and government intervention for socio-economic development. This research found that push and pull factors are significant determinants but push factors are more important than pull factors to motivate migration. Thus, three-tier governments should increase the budget for higher education for quality education and productive sectors with researchThis study aims to unpack the factors of students’ choices of out-migration. The independent variables are push and pull factors and the dependent variable is the socio-economic motive for going abroad. Push factors consist of unemployment, poverty, family conflict, an inferior education system, political disturbance, and poor development activities, and pull factors consist of the desire to study, fashion, earn and learn, be rich, relative invite, and friends' suggestions. The study is carried out with a quantitative research design. The nature of the study is descriptive. For this study, data was collected from primary sources. The researchers obtained data about the sample using answers to structural questionnaires from the bachelor-level students of Dolkaha, Nepal. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for the data analysis using SPSS software version 23. According to respondents from the data analysis, most college students are unsatisfied with Nepal's current political system and government intervention for socio-economic development. This research found that push and pull factors are significant determinants but push factors are more important than pull factors to motivate migration. Thus, three-tier governments should increase the budget for higher education for quality education and productive sectors with research