Abstract
The study was designed to examine critical analysis of research scholar expectations in higher education at UOH. Objectives of the study were to find out recent scholar’s expectations from university, to explore the social status of enrolling in higher education, to assess the educational preferences and skills and to analyze the economic status of research scholars.101 students of M. Phil program and 15 students of the Ph.D program from different departments (education, agriculture, environmental, mathematics, forestry, management, microbiology) were chosen as the sample of the study. A questionnaire was used for collection of data from the respondent. The questionnaire consisted of 22 items which was further divided into four sections. The first section of the questionnaire consists of the educational preferences and skill of scholar, the second section consists of social status about the scholars, the third section consists of the economic status of the scholars and the fourth section consist of expectations of the scholar. The study was quantitative and co-relational design was used. The researcher personally collected data from the departments of the University of Haripur through a questionnaire. For data analysis, multiple regressions were computed by SPSS. Multiple regression was used as a set of variables were used each of which correlates to some extent with a criterion variable for which we like to predict values. It was found that the graduates other than UOH as an independent variable (educational preferences and skills) contributes the most in explaining more expectation for research.