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Keywords: Aspirations, educational aspirations, career aspirations, career self-efficacy
Introduction
Students' aspirations can be changed due to the effects of different factors which influenced them at the university level but these aspirations can be modified due to the students ‘surroundings, from their experiences and environment. Aspiration is described as a strong wish to attain high goals (Kaur, 2012). It is also defined as what students think to achieve in future. It is also viewed that aspirations are related to students' desires and dreams about their future life. All the factors effect on educational and career aspirations of students and their self-efficacy beliefs perform an important role to create or direct students' aspirations. So, the level of aspiration is defined as a point of reference towards a goal, context and experiences. It means that the level of aspiration can be decided by the students' decisions about their career goals so that the students can be able to decide their careers to perform their tasks and achieve the goals.
Career aspiration is expressed in term of the wishes and wants of a person related to any occupation (Grubb and Lazerson, 2005). Regardless of the limits enforced by the reality career aspiration is purely confirmed by imaginations whereas vocational choice needs to be more reality-based, therefore, only a few theories have framed particularly for vocational aspiration (Sirin, Diemer, Jackson, Gonsalves, and Howell, 2004). Theoretically, in a democratic set up an individual has the fundamental right to adopt any vocation which a person aspires for the most of times. Students' knowledge of career choices, their awareness of ways to career attainment, and their perceptions of self-efficacy to complete their vocational goals need to observe.
An individual s' confidence supports the individual to decide how much efforts, a student has to make for a specific task (Hendricks et al., 2015). An important factor which affects an individual's career aspiration is related to the self-efficacy. The definition of self-efficacy relates to the judgment of knowledge and belief about persons' potentials and abilities. Self-efficacy is defined as an individuals' confidence and beliefs related to strengths and capabilities and is concerned how people perform in given behaviours (Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, and Pastorelli, 2001; Bindu and Padmanabhan, 2016). It is related to achieve assigned targets...