Choice of a Mentor: A Subjective Evaluation of Expectations, Experiences and Feedbacks

TL;DR

This paper examines how scholars choose mentors in higher education, emphasizing the importance of approachability, interaction frequency, and intervention level in forming their preferences.

Contribution

It investigates the factors influencing scholars' mentor choices and highlights the significance of information availability and personal interactions in decision-making.

Findings

Scholars prefer approachable and moderately intervening mentors.

Frequent interactions positively influence mentor selection.

Information about mentors significantly impacts scholars' choices.

Abstract

Recent trends in academics show an increase in enrollment levels in higher education Predominantly in Doctoral programmes where individual scholars institutes and supervisors play the key roles The human factor at receiving end of academic excellence is the scholar having a supervisor at the facilitating end In this paper I try to establish the role of different factors and availability of information about them in forming the basic choice set in a scholars mind After studying three different groups of individuals who were subjected to substitutive choices we found that scholars prefer an approachable, moderately intervening and frequently interacting professor as their guide