The financial problems and academic performance among public university students in Malaysia

Abstract

Financial play an important role in students’ academic performance. Financial problems are a serious issue that needs to be addressed as it leads to multiple stages of problems such as health issues and academic performance. Dang and Bulus (2015) education is a high-cost social service therefore insufficient financial support will be a problem for students to enhance themselves in academics thus leading to poor academic performance. This paper aims to identify the relationship between financial problems and academic performance faced by public university students in Malaysia. Self-administered surveys were used to gather data from a total of 120 respondents among public university students. Data collected were analysed using SPSS in order to obtain descriptive statistics. From the results, it is ascertained that there is a significant relationship between financial problems and academic performance of p = 0.014 < a 0.05 indicating that the students with financial problems affect their academic performance.