Measuring Leadership Traits with Academic Performance among Higher Education Students Rated by Raters

In today's competitive and challenging environment, leadership m higher education comes to term challenges. Organizations today face more challenges like change m society, markets, customers, competition and technology (Laurie&Heifetz, 2001) so that corporate sector will demand of an innovative kind of leadership. So this paper examines the leadership traits among the higher education students (Management, Engineering,&Biotechnology) and which traits are rated higher and also to find the relationship among leadership trait and academic performance of the higher education students. The data was collected by questionnaire on 5 point Likert scale developed by Peter North house (2013) with 306 students of from higher education. The result shows that there are four traits out of 14 (Trustworthy,Friendly, Self-confident)rated higher by the rating as a rater by the higher education Students. Study also shows that there is no significant relationship between leadership traits and academic performance of the higher education students.