EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS FROM MSW COURSE: A CASE STUDY OF THE MSW ASPIRANTS

Each year during admissions a huge line of aspirants can be seen for MSW course. More number of applications are received by MSW department. Whenever the author used to witness this, there was a question rising in mind, are they really MSW aspirants of social work course or is there any other intension like career opportunities. In that case what is happening is appreciable or not. And the author decided to make a study on MSW aspirants about their expectations. Universities are having their own rules and regulations to select the candidates. The criteria for selection checks the general knowledge, their percentages etc. However these doesn’t really check their real intension or interest in the social work field. Similarly the aspirants come with some expectations and join, then the real intensions are met according to their expectations or not. A reality check has to be done. Hence the author made a detailed study on the intensions and expectations of MSW aspirants.