Dependability of Engineering Graduates in Private Non-for-Profit Higher Education Institution

Abstract

The private education institutions in Malaysia have been booming up since 80’s. The demand is increasingly and the fees of education in private institutions also big variance compare to government higher institutions. As such, private non-for-profit higher institutions were taking place to offer comparatively low fee’s course to those below average income household family. Indeed, one of the high demands program is in engineering related course. However, public perception onto non-for-profit always relate to low quality or underperforming. This study provides an in depth study on investigating the perception on trustworthiness on teaching role and gender differences towards future technical professionals in private non-for-profit higher institutions. The study enables to collect 59 male and 59 female respondents for this study. Specifically, non-parametric measurement is adopted and the findings revealed that there is no difference and correlation of gender with teaching role and trustworthiness. In detail, male and female has no significant towards their selection in the private non-for-profit higher institution 

Index Terms: Perception, Trustworthiness, and Engineering.