Financial status to academic performance of fourth year students of technological university of the philippines - cuenca extension program/ Jun Daniel Malabanan Comia, Van Julius Lagunsad, and Cristo Marvin Lopez Montilla.--

Bachelor's thesis

College Of Industrial Education.--
Bachelor of science in industrial education: Technological University of the Philippines,
2025.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Success in education is considered crucial for pursuing one’s dreams and
achieving life goals. However, college inevitably presented challenges and
demands that students needed to navigate in order to fully utilize university
resources and meet academic standards. This study focused on the relationship
between financial status and academic performance among selected fourth-year
students of the Technological University of the Philippines – Cuenca Extension
Program during the academic year 2024 - 2025. A purposive sampling technique
was employed, as the study involved a specific group of participants based on the
results of a rating scale or survey questionnaire. The quantitative correlational
research design, frequency, percentage, mean, weighted mean, standard
deviation and pearson r correlation were used to determine the relationship
between financial status and academic performance among 58 fourth-year
students.
The study revealed a moderate level of agreement regarding the financial
status of the respondents across various factors. This indicated that the financial
experiences of fourth-year college students at TUP–Cuenca Extension Program
were neither highly favorable nor extremely difficult, but still showed that students
faced notable financial hardships in pursuit of their education. The data on their
academic performance, as measured by their General Weighted Averages (GWA)
during the academic year 2024 – 2025 showed that students were still able to
obtain passing grades despite experiencing financial instability and challenges.
This finding suggested that academic performance, particularly the achievement
of passing or high GWA, was not entirely hindered by financial difficulties.
The study found a marginally significant relationship between financial
status and academic performance (GWA), though the relationship was not strong.
Nevertheless, the result implied a possible association between the two variables.