Impact of Socio-Economic and Academic Background on Students’ Achievement in Higher Education: A Study of Assam University

Abstract

Socio-economic and academic background is an important indicator for pursuing higher education and for performing better achievement. The paper examines the relationship between academic performance of the students of higher education with socio-economic background and their past academic performance. This paper also examines the differences in the achievements among different socio-economic groups. The study adopts multi-stage random sampling to collect data of 200 samples from a central university situated in Silchar, Assam. To analyze the data mean difference test and multiple regression analysis is used. The study reveals that although both socio-economic and academic backgrounds are important in determining the performance of the students in higher education, but academic factors are more influential than socioeconomic factors.