A study on the effects of different factors on Academic achievement among university students in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh: A Statistical Study

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Education is an important way for students to change their social status. Students’ academic performance in tertiary education is determined by their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). There are many factors that contribute to determine whether the CGPA is excellent, moderate, or low. However, this study was carried out to determine the effect of different factors and academic achievement among university students of HSTU. For this study, A total of 500 students were involved in the study in which purposive or judgment sampling technique were used. In this study, ordinal logistic regression model is also applied to identify the factors that have impact more on academic achievement. From association test we have found that there was no association (p>0.05) between stress and academic achievement (CGPA). There was also no association between involve in group study and CGPA (p > 0.05) and between extra curriculum activities, stress, mobile usages in study purpose, relationship status and CGPA (p>0.05). There was significant relationship between family monthly income, sex of student, occupation of family head, politics, residence, lab facilities, income source and CGPA (p<0.05). In ordinal logistic regression model of academic achievement in HSTU students’ sex, political status, involve in group study, mobile use on study purpose and involve in extra curriculum activities as significant variables.