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The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia

The Private Universities (PU) sector in Malaysia is growing. Newly incoming students’ requests in the education sector are demanding and encouraging. Increased of number of players offering educational services are competing among to attract students. The PU’s in the country are increasing pressure...

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Main Authors: K. Selvarajah T. Krishnan, Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner, Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Sajilan, (UniKL BiS)
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Published: 2014
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Generation Z
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spelling my.unikl.ir-68812014-05-15T08:30:41Z The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia K. Selvarajah T. Krishnan Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Sajilan (UniKL BiS) Social Media Generation Z The Private Universities (PU) sector in Malaysia is growing. Newly incoming students’ requests in the education sector are demanding and encouraging. Increased of number of players offering educational services are competing among to attract students. The PU’s in the country are increasing pressure on competing to recruit students and their sustainability is relying on students’ intake and retention rates. Students have more preferences now days to select the PU in Malaysia on their choice. Social media(SM) has become prominent basic tool and a prestige of social interaction, along with networking between students and society. The use of SM is very highly spread among students and their life without SM is almost unthinkable. Most of the PU’s in Malaysia uses the SM for reason to attract their targeted students, but they are not too serious on their social media contents and their effectiveness. There are also indications that Generation Z becomes core to students’ markets as this age cohort of begins to join universities in HEI. The PU’s should acknowledge the needs and wants of the Gen Z, able to socialize with them through SM and use the SM for promotion and marketing. There is a gap to explore the effectiveness of universities social media contents that influence the Gen Z students’ intention to make decision in selecting private universities in Malaysia because of lack of studies and information. For this purpose, the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) was adopted and modified accordingly as the basis for the research study. 2014-05-15T08:30:41Z 2014-05-15T08:30:41Z 2014-05-15 http://localhost/xmlui/handle/123456789/6881
institution Universiti Kuala Lumpur
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Kuala Lumpur
content_source UniKL Institutional Repository
url_provider http://ir.unikl.edu.my/
topic Social Media
Generation Z
spellingShingle Social Media
Generation Z
K. Selvarajah T. Krishnan
Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner
Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Sajilan
(UniKL BiS)
The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
description The Private Universities (PU) sector in Malaysia is growing. Newly incoming students’ requests in the education sector are demanding and encouraging. Increased of number of players offering educational services are competing among to attract students. The PU’s in the country are increasing pressure on competing to recruit students and their sustainability is relying on students’ intake and retention rates. Students have more preferences now days to select the PU in Malaysia on their choice. Social media(SM) has become prominent basic tool and a prestige of social interaction, along with networking between students and society. The use of SM is very highly spread among students and their life without SM is almost unthinkable. Most of the PU’s in Malaysia uses the SM for reason to attract their targeted students, but they are not too serious on their social media contents and their effectiveness. There are also indications that Generation Z becomes core to students’ markets as this age cohort of begins to join universities in HEI. The PU’s should acknowledge the needs and wants of the Gen Z, able to socialize with them through SM and use the SM for promotion and marketing. There is a gap to explore the effectiveness of universities social media contents that influence the Gen Z students’ intention to make decision in selecting private universities in Malaysia because of lack of studies and information. For this purpose, the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) was adopted and modified accordingly as the basis for the research study.
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author K. Selvarajah T. Krishnan
Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner
Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Sajilan
(UniKL BiS)
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Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner
Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Sajilan
(UniKL BiS)
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title The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
title_short The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
title_full The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
title_fullStr The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The effects of social media on Gen Z’s intention to select private universities in Malaysia
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