Comparing the level of political awareness among the students of social and natural sciences: A case study of public sector Universities in Pakistan

This study was designed to determine the level of political awareness among the students of public sector universities in pakistan. bahauddin zakariya university (bzu),multan,pakistan was selected to generalize the results of this study. a total of 200 students were randomly selected as a sample of the study out of which hundred students (50 males and 50 females) were selected from 5 departments of social sciences and the same proportion of the students was selected from 5 departments of natural sciences. a test comprising 100 multiple choice questions acquiring the basic knowledge of politics was developed for this study under the guidance of the experts from international islamic university and bzu,multan. the collected data were analyzed by applying descriptive (mean and sd) and the inferential statistics (z-test). the results of the study showed the poor level of political awareness among the total study sample. the level of political awareness among the students including male and female from natural sciences comparatively remained below from the students of social sciences. the integration of the basic political knowledge in the subject of pakistan studies at bachelor level and organizing seminars,quizzes regarding political awareness were recommended in this study.