Abstract:
Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) is a private technical university in Malaysia.
Each 12 campuses specialized in a sector of their own. Malaysian Institute of
Marine Engineering and Technology (MIMET) is one of its campuses. Located
in Lumut, MIMET specialized in maritime sector. Recently, there have been an
issue in Malaysia where there is a shortage of manpower in maritime sector.
This beg for a study to see the trend of young people going into maritime sector
through furthering their study at maritime academy and institution. As one of
the maritime institution in Malaysia, UniKL MIMET was selected as the subject
for this research. This research was aimed to see the trends of maritime
student enrolment into UniKL MIMET and to identify the factors that influenced
their decision to enrol in UniKL MIMET. Data for the study of trends was
acquired from the Department of Academic Services of UniKL MIMET while
the data for the study to identify the factors was collected through the
distribution of questionnaire to the student of UniKL MIMET. Both type of data
was analysed by using IBM’s software named Statistical Package for Social
Science (SPSS).
