Comparative study of the Internet Utilization pattern of male and female Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University students

Internet has become a way of life for majority of higher education students all around the world. For most college students, the internet is a functional tool, one that has greatly changed the way they interact with each other and with information as they go about their studies. With internet many students prepare course assignments, make study notes, tutor themselves with specialized multimedia, and process data for research projects. Most students exchange e-mails with faculty, peers, and remote experts. They keep up to- date in fields on the internet, accessing newsgroups, bulletin boards, and websites posted by professional organizations. Most students access library catalogs, bibliographic databases, and academic resource in text, graphics and imagery on the World Wide Web. The present study was conducted in Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, by personally interviewing the randomly selected 100 internet utilizing students from Chimanbhai Patel College of Agriculture and 100 internet utilizing students from College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry. For measuring the internet utilization pattern of the SDAU students, a schedule was developed by the investigator in light of the suggestion of the experts.

The finding reveal that most of the internet utilizing male SDAU students (47.86%) and majority of female SDAU students (60.00%) had 1 to 2 years experience of internet use. Majority of the internet utilizing male SDAU students (MPS 94.64) and female SDAU students (MPS 98.33) preferred hostel for internet use. The finding reveal that most of the internet utilizing male SDAU students (43.57%) and female SDAU students (36.67%) did not spent any money expenditure incurred to use internet. Majority of internet utilizing male SDAU students (66.42%) and (63.33%) female SDAU students had used internet facility every day.