College Students in debt

Market Research Paper: Executive Summary: Conduct a Market Research study. Choose a topic that is relevant to today’s student population. You will create a survey form and interview 50 SSC students, friends or fellow workers etc. about your topic. Then collect and summarize your findings and prepare a written report. Instructions: * Choose a topic of interest – College Students in debt * Create a survey form, containing 10-12 questions (My survey question I used) 1. What is your age group? 2. Annual Household income? 3. Are you part-time or full-time student? 4. Do you work while attending school 5. Are you using financial assistance to pay for school?

6. What is your highest level of education? 7.Approximately, how much is your student debt? 8. Are you currently paying off your student debts? 9.Are you finding it difficult to find a job with your major? 10. How many times have you changed your major? * Using the form, interview 50 SSC students, friends or fellow workers etc. (The link to the survey questions- https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-HWB5SNJZV/) * Collect and summarize the data * Prepare a formal report with your findings Report Format * Write a formal report on your findings. (A NARRATIVE; not a POWERPOINT!) * Use BOLD TYPE for the Paragraph Sections * Use normal typeface for text * Provide an Executive Overview * State that management requested you to survey 50 people for the purpose of….. * State your Purpose for conducting this survey in the overview. * Re-state your PURPOSE at the top of the survey form. * You want interviewees to understand what they are responding to * Methodology: Provide a paragraph stating the method /manner you used to collect data. * Summarize the results of each survey question in both a written and graphical manner, such as bar charts or pie charts * Add percentages and actual numbers for each response * Incorporate a bar graph or pie chart with each response * Conclusions: Based on survey results what conclusions do you derive from the data? * Recommendations: What recommendations will you make to management based on results? * Reminder: State purpose of survey at the top of the form. * 3 references or more