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Measuring Financial Literacy Among the Students of Professional Courses


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1 Research Scholar, School of Management, The Northcap University, Gurugram, India
2 Professor, School of Management, The Northcap University, Gurugram, India
 

Individuals must acquire the skills required to live in today’s society and to deal with the growing variety and complexity of financial goods and services available because of the dynamic environment, fast-developing, internationally connected, and complicated financial markets. Finance becomes ever more complicated as technology advances and society grows. It is critical for colleges and universities students to graduate with a solid understanding of financial matters. The research aims to identify the level of financial literacy among students in Delhi NCR. Further, the paper also compared financial literacy among students in Delhi NCR based on different demographic. Both the primary as well as secondary data are used in the analysis. The primary data was obtained through an online questionnaire. The target group of the research study was students studying in India’s Delhi NCR colleges and universities and belonging to the courses MBA, BBA, M.Com, B.Com. The questionnaire was filled out by 335 respondents of Delhi NCR college students. The study concluded that at higher education institutions, there is no substantial significant difference in financial literacy between males and females

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Financial literacy, Exploratory, Non-Parametric, Colleges, and University
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Authors

Mansi Yadav
Research Scholar, School of Management, The Northcap University, Gurugram, India
Swaranjeet Arora
Professor, School of Management, The Northcap University, Gurugram, India

Abstract


Individuals must acquire the skills required to live in today’s society and to deal with the growing variety and complexity of financial goods and services available because of the dynamic environment, fast-developing, internationally connected, and complicated financial markets. Finance becomes ever more complicated as technology advances and society grows. It is critical for colleges and universities students to graduate with a solid understanding of financial matters. The research aims to identify the level of financial literacy among students in Delhi NCR. Further, the paper also compared financial literacy among students in Delhi NCR based on different demographic. Both the primary as well as secondary data are used in the analysis. The primary data was obtained through an online questionnaire. The target group of the research study was students studying in India’s Delhi NCR colleges and universities and belonging to the courses MBA, BBA, M.Com, B.Com. The questionnaire was filled out by 335 respondents of Delhi NCR college students. The study concluded that at higher education institutions, there is no substantial significant difference in financial literacy between males and females

Keywords


Financial literacy, Exploratory, Non-Parametric, Colleges, and University

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31794/NLDIMSR.5.2.2021.6-13