• Rao Arif Qamar

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• Syeda Saman Zahra

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• Abid Fareed Khan Anjum

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• Muhammad Arshad Khan

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• Muhammad Qasim Ali

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The study explores the factors influencing teaching profession as a career among university graduates. There are a number of influencing factors in Pakistani society that effect the choice of teaching profession as a career for university graduates. The objectives of the study focus on the influencing factors and the perception of university graduates in the choice of teaching profession as a career. The researchers selected a sample of 200 graduate students in Education Department from The University of Lahore, Pakpattan Campus and University of Education, Okara Campus. The research was a survey descriptive research. A self developed questionnaire was used for the collection of data. The researchers used SPSS 17 for the description of collected data and simple statistical techniques of mean score and standard deviation was used. The study concluded that graduate students are keen toward teaching. They thought that teaching is much suitable to their interest and abilities. They have great passion to serve the society through education. There is one of the important factors for the graduate students are that there is low work load and lengthy holidays in teaching profession.

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