1 Faridpur Zila Proshason School and College, Jhiltuli, Faridpur 7800, Bangladesh.
2 Department of Business Studies, School of Business, Northern University of Business & Technology, Khulna 9100,
Bangladesh.
3 Sociology Discipline, Social Science School, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
2 Department of Business Studies, School of Business, Northern University of Business & Technology, Khulna 9100,
Bangladesh.
3 Sociology Discipline, Social Science School, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
Abstract
This study aimed to identify the socioeconomic determinants of academic achievement of university students in Khulna City. For the study, responses were collected randomly from 600 university students by administering a semistructured self-reported questionnaire (SRQ), and the data were analyzed using
IBM SPSS Statistics version 25 in three mutually exclusive steps, i.e., descriptive statistics, stepwise multiple regression, and hierarchical regression. The findings reveal that personal attributes, i.e., age (p < 0.01), health problems (p < 0.05), and religion (p < 0.05), significantly determined the academic achievement of university students. Among the parental and household status, fathers’ occupation (p < 0.05), as well as family size (p < 0.001), number of household dependents (p < 0.001), income-based types of the family (p < 0.05), and parental reading habits (p < 0.01) substantially influenced the academic achievement. Moreover, academic pressure and mental stress (p < 0.01) and teachers’ academic support (p < 0.05) also affected university students’ academic achievement. It is recommended that the government take steps to minimize educational disparity among and between socioeconomic strata and initiate programs that would help students, especially marginalized students,
secure scholarships and other facilities to enable them to continue pursuing higher education.
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