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FACTORS INFLUENCING CHOICE OF DISCIPLINE OF STUDY — ACCOUNTANCY, ENGINEERING, LAW AND MEDICINE
Author(s) -
Gul F.A.,
Andrew B.H.,
Leong S.C.,
Ismail Z.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-629X
pISSN - 0810-5391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-629x.1989.tb00105.x
Subject(s) - aptitude , subject (documents) , psychology , accounting , earnings , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , business , developmental psychology , computer science , library science
This paper examines the factors which influence high calibre students in their choice of a professional discipline of study. Using a questionnaire approach students were requested to determine the relative importance of eleven factors in their choice of discipline of study. Results showed that accountancy students appeared most concerned with job satisfaction, earnings potential, availability of employment, aptitude for subject and years of formal education, and to have a different, and more distinctive, profile than that of other students. These results may have important implications for recruitment into the profession.