Exploring the Nexus: Enhancing Academic Motivation through Optimizing Quality of College Life

Authors: Muhammad Qasim Ali

Education is a systematic approach that enables individuals and adults to acquire knowledge, skills, and a healthy character. Living on campus is a true challenge for an undergraduate. In the direction of his routine and everyday life, he moves forward. College teaches males to be independent and self-reliant, take charge, learn from their surroundings, be social, work together, persevere through difficult times, and put in long hours. The objectives of the study were; to compare students' perceptions about academic motivation and quality of college life on the basis of class, department and to find out the relationship between academic motivation and quality college life. It was quantitative research study, having the population of college students in the district of Vehari. Sample of the study comprised 400 hundred college students. Statistical techniques of t-test and Pearson correlation be applied on the collected data. The study found that students from diverse majors have a common viewpoint, when asked to compare the importance of college life, students majoring in the arts and sciences had similar opinions, with no statistically significant difference. It is also found that compared with their scientific counterparts, students majoring in the arts tend to have stronger opinions regarding what drives them to succeed in school. Furthermore, the study also showed that correlation suggests a relatively favorable link between these variables, with a strength of 0.567. Students who have a positive outlook on college life are more likely to be highly motivated to succeed academically.