90% of Pakistani students want to pursue higher education but where are
the most people from? The first survey of its kind came out

A recent survey found that 9 out of 10 Pakistani students want to
pursue higher education.

 

Pakistani students aspire to
higher degrees

Pakistani students aspire to pursue higher degrees but are also
declaring the university out of reach of the common man.

This was revealed in the first-of-its-kind Gallup survey of more than
1,000 interns across Pakistan.

When asked to pursue a higher degree after graduation, 9 out of 10
students, or 90%, expressed a desire to pursue a higher degree.

While 10% voted against it and asked not to register for higher degree.

 

What city is the student from?

The majority of 91% urban and 89% rural students expressed their desire
to pursue higher degrees, while Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir had
the highest number of aspirations among the provinces at 94% and 92% from
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The survey found that 2 out of 5 students, or 42%, expect to have a
master’s degree.

While 1 out of every 3 or 32% are dreaming of getting a PhD degree.

 

Which degree is most in demand?

Sixteen per cent said they expected to get a bachelor’s degree, two per
cent a medical degree and two per cent a law degree, while one per cent said
they would get two bachelor’s degrees and four per cent other degrees.

After which Gallup Pakistan asked the students about the accessibility
of universities to the common man, in response to which 83% said that the
universities are beyond the reach of the common man due to expensive fees,
while 17% said that they are within the reach of the common man.

 

According to Gallup Pakistan, the rate of students saying that they do
not have access to universities due to inflation was higher in all the
provinces but in Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir it was 87% and in
Punjab it was 84%.

 

What percentage of students
cannot pay the fees?

Who should pay the university fees on this question? So 22% of the
students surveyed looked to the federal government, 19% to the provincial
governments, while one in five students, or 19%, asked students and their
families to pay university fees.

In the survey, 39 per cent wanted a federal or provincial government or
a combination of different institutions to pay fees, while only one per cent
asked private institutions to pay university fees.

On the question of the value of universities, 51% rated it as the best,
38% rated it as good, 10% rated it as appropriate and 1% rated it as bad.

 

Pakistani education system
compared to the world

On the question of the quality of Pakistan’s education system compared
to the rest of the world, 35% rated it as average, while 29% rated it above the
global average and 15% rated it below the global average.

15% of students called it one of the best in the world and 5% called it
the best education system in the country.