Vol. 10, Issue 5, Part B (2024)

Background: Absenteeism now majorly seen by students at the university level. It is widely seen by professors that negatively impacts the students academics performances. The prevalence and factors causing absenteeism needed to be studied to build up student’s performance to achieve great skills.

Aim of the study: The aim of study is to assess the prevalence and contributory factors causing absenteeism in selected University of District Mohali, Punjab.

Material and Method: A descriptive exploratory research design and quantitative approach was use in the study. 200 samples were selected by using purposive sampling technique from selected University of District Mohali, Punjab having less than 75% of attendance. Self-structured questionnaire was designed for data collection and analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: The result showed that prevalence of absenteeism is highly marked by School of law (32.5%) followed by School of engineering and biotechnology (25.0%) followed by School of education (22.5%) followed by school of management (20.0%).

Percentage distribution of factors causing absenteeism is shown by Personal factors (67.5%), followed by Academics factors (18.0%) and peer factors (14.5%).

Conclusion: The conclusion was 64.32% of the total students have attendance less than 75% annually It showed that there was significant associations of prevalence of absenteeism with selected demographics variables. The factors causing absenteeism were categorised in 3 parts academics, personal and peers where personal factors shows majority of percentage (67.5%) factor causing absenteeism.