O interesse dos estudantes de administração na área de Tecnologia da Informação

Abstract

ThiV aUWicle aimV WR RbVeUYe Whe VWXdenWV¶ RSiniRn abRXW Whe degUee Rf bachelRU in bXVineVV administration offered in public and private institutions of in the city of João Pessoa. It also intent to understand the professional intentions or realities about the Information Technology (IT) area RffeUed in Whe cRXUVeV WhURXgh Whe VWXdenWV¶ SeUceSWiRnV. ThXV, WhiV study aimed to investigate the level of interest and identification with the area of Information Technology among students of Business Administration courses at the main institutions of higher education at Paraíba. It is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, carried out through an online questionnaire. 161 students aged between 17 and 48 years have participated, whom 52% were female and 48% were

6 male students. The main results showed students from private institutions looking for more extracurricular activities in the IT area, while students from public institutions showed more interest in researching the area in the future. It was observed that younger students were more interested in IT disciplines and careers while older students experienced greater difficulty on learning in the area. The research also showed that students who had extracurricular courses to improve their knowledge in IT area do not think they were wasting their time on disciplines in the area and also believed that the content learned in the classes might be useful in their professional lives. The study showed despite older students have experienced more difficulty while learning IT, all students interviewed tend to agree that they feel prepared to solve practical problems after the skills learned in IT area. Finally, this research expected to collaborate with the understanding of educators and managers of higher education institutions about the current student's profile and their necessity of learning IT once this courses will form the professional of IT who is going to fill the market in the future.