Academic achievement and social support among postgraduate students: an empirical study

The present paper intends to explore the social support among postgraduate students. For this purpose, descriptive survey method was used. In order to measure social support of post graduate students, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support by Zimet (1988) was used and administered to a sample of 100 students chosen through systematic random sampling. Results of the study indicated that the academic achievement of boys and girls differed significantly and academic achievement of urban and rural did not differ significantly. Moreover, it can be inferred that there was found no significant difference in social support of male and female students and students belonging to urban and rural area. Further, the correlation coefficient indicated that social support and academic achievement has small but positively correlated with each other.