Analysis of Internet Usage by Students of SCAD Polytechnic College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

This paper presents “A Study on Use of Internet by Students of SCAD Polytechnic College Library, Tirunelveli”. Here majority students are searching for information via Google search engine and others are followed. Random sampling technique has been used to distribute 175 questionnaires and a response rate of 136 (77.71%) were recorded. Majority of the respondents were males occupying 113 (83.08%) and females were 23 (16.92%) from a total of 136 respondents. It was seen that 118 (86.76%) showed a positive response whereas 18 (13.24%) denied having any knowledge on Internet usage. Majority of the students using Internet are daily users (73.73%) followed by weekly (10.17%), monthly (9.32%), and occasionally (6.78%). Again we can see that Mechanical Engineering (MeE) and Automobile Engineering (AE) students (16.10%) consume more Internet data than the other departments followed by Electrical and Communication Engineering (ECE) students (15.25%). Lowest Internet data are consumed by Marine Engineering (MaE) accounting to (11.86%). Finally it can be observed from the findings of the study that students 47(39.83%) use Internet for preparing homework, assignments followed by 35(29.66%) students use Internet for keeping up with the current trends related to their field of study.