Financial status and completion rate of undergraduates in art and industrial design in Uganda's universities: a case of Kyambogo University

Abstract

Financial status and completion rate of undergraduates in Art and Industrial Design in Uganda's Universities, a case of Kyambogo University. The University admits students on merit to pursue Art and Industrial Design courses at undergraduate level with hope of completion on time. However, the present statistics indicates how completion rate is low due to many factors; hence this study which singled out the effects of financial status and completion rate of undergraduates. Objectives of the study which were to find out challenges to completion rate of Art and Industrial Design courses, to identify nature of financial challenges to completion rate, to assess impact of financial challenge to completion rate of Art and Industrial Design and suggest various ways of handling the financial challenges in order to enhance completion rate. Conclusions and recommendations from the collected and analyzed data revealed that finance is a major challenge to completion rate of Art and Industrial Design courses of undergraduates, although there are other challenges like social, health problems and academic reasons among the factors that affect students' completion rate in time apart from finance and the recommendations are students should be sensitized about the cheap local materials to be used, lecturers should create good working relationship and the government should also support students financially in their studies, reduction in tuition and downsizing of programs so that they can meet the financial status of students.