*Professor, Chairman, Institute of Management Studies, Shivagangothri, Davangere University, Davangere-02
**Research Scholar, Institute of Management Studies, Shivagangothri, Davangere University, Davangere-02
***Associate Professor, T John College, Bangalore
Online published on 24 January, 2015.
India is a land of many religions propaganda the principles of their religion in their own way and they are also engaged in spreading spirituality in their own perception. In India students‘ intelligence quotient and emotional quotient is based on the spiritual quotient acquired by them from their religious background. But in the case of students of western countries it is not so, because today‘s western culture characterized by selfishness, materialism, lack of sense of community, and ultimately a lack of meaning. Yet common values, customs, purposes and meaning are what bind a community together. If society isn‘t providing these anchors, the answer is to develop individual Spiritual Quotient and find your own. This paper empirical in nature makes an attempt to comparatively analyse the spiritual quotient of Indian students and foreign students studying in India. The study area chosen is Davangere city in Karnataka state. Davangere is the hub of educational institutions in the area of engineering, medical and management attracting several foreign students because of the presence of top class institutes in the areas mentioned above. Davangere has good number of foreign students doing their higher education. This paper tries to identify the reasons for difference in spiritual quotient among Indian and foreign students.
