A Comparative Study of Academic Performance between Male and Female Students at University Level in Bangladesh

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For more than a decade, we have seen that at the university level in Bangladesh, girls have achieved better academic results than boys. Academics have blamed boys for their outward attitude and misuse of mobile phones and the internet. The study is conducted to investigate the important factors that affect the academic performance of university level students in Bangladesh. And it has also been determined how much higher the risk is due to the low academic performance of males than females. A cross sectional study is conducted among 960 students of 12 top public universities in different locations in Bangladesh. For each university, we have selected an equal number of male and female graduate and postgraduate students only who have passed within recent three years. Here we consider the merit position in graduate and post-graduate label (1-10th place) as a dependent variable and the marital status, parent's educational level, guardian’s occupation, households income status (BDT), family status, residential area, background educational result, girlfriend/boyfriend relationship status, career goal, smoking status, involvement of student politics, tuition trend, internet using time, a library using status, residential place in the study period, class attendance as the independent variable. Binary logistic regression model, chi-square test and simple descriptive analysis are used for data analysis. The binary logistics model is used to find out the factors for better academic results among male and female students.

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