Abstract:
Student’s interest is the main factor of development of industry and institution
in maritime sector. This research is focused on how many high school students
have interest to further their studies in maritime field. Unfortunately, graduating
students from secondary schools may not have confident in making decision
on where to go in college and what program that suitable for them. They are
planning to enter college without think about their future.
Furthermore, few approaches had been done in gathering information
from the secondary level’s students in order to meet the research objectives.
The method chosen is survey method through the set of questionnaires
distribution among the students from a few schools regarding to their interest
and awareness about maritime. Questionnaires were distribute to the students
and they need to answer some questions.
In order from that, the result shown that secondary level’s students does
not aware about maritime field and have no interest towards this field. From
the research conducted, there are important issue that need to be done in
order to give awareness to them. All parties are responsible in this problem to
ensure that students have their choice to further studies in future.
